[Cardiovascular disease: a view from global health perspective]. / Enfermedad cardiovascular: una visión desde la salud global.
Med Clin (Barc)
; 141(5): 210-6, 2013 Sep 07.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-23522729
ABSTRACT
Globalization has facilitated the movement of large number of people around the world, leading modern clinicians to attend patients with rare or forgotten diseases. In the last few years many doctors are working in developing countries as volunteers or expatriates. The aim of this article is to summarize the basic epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic knowledge of the main cardiovascular diseases that a medical doctor from a developed country may attend in a tropical rural hospital, or with challenging diseases in patients coming from developing countries.
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Assunto principal:
Doenças Cardiovasculares
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Saúde Global
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
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Prevalence_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
Africa
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Asia
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Es
Revista:
Med Clin (Barc)
Ano de publicação:
2013
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Article