The Heart Fund

Development and evaluation of a package to improve #hypertension control in #Nigeria doi.org/10.1186/s13063…

The overall quality of available evidence on community-based arterial hypertension #aHT #care is low. doi.org/10.1186/s12889…

It's Friday! Our bi-montly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba Including African Americans in #genomicstudies can result in five times more accurate prediction of #disease risk in the #African population. doi.org/10.1038/s41591…

🗓 #savethedate We’ll be participating to the #webinar our partner @UPLLtd will be hosting tomorrow! We will discuss how our partnership has been improving communities’s cardiovascular health in #rural #cotedivoire Be there! #Africa #Sustainability lnkd.in/e67dSPaT

#cancer mortality in sub-Saharan Africa could reach 1 million by 2030 without rapid interventions pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35550275/

Lower #COVID19 mortality among physically active individuals in Sub-Saharan Africa doi.org/10.1016/j.pcad…

It's Friday! Our bi-montly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba Use of Traditional Medicine☘️ and control of hypertension 🩺: a cross-sectional study in 12 African countries. Just published in @GlobalHealthBMJ with @rGayeBamba dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjgh-…

Our COO Virginie Gallardo and Dr. Sana Chatti, cardiovascular surgeon and member of our medical team, are in #Geneva all week end to attend the #WorldHeartSummit's exciting panel discussions @worldheartfed! #globalhealth #cardiovascularhealth #theheartfund

This high prevalence is still carried on... Follow our upcoming publications doi.org/10.1016/j.ijch…

THF will keep making every effort to screen, detect and and implement achievable solutions to tackle Hypertension and SH in particular.

#WorldHypertensionDay Though some data from in-hospital or selected populations are available, there are very few studies reporting community-level prevalence of Severe Hypertension (SH) in sub-Saharan Africa

Toward increasing #diversity in #genetic studies. "The distribution of ancestry data contained in the GWAS catalog for studies published from March 2005 to January 2022" only 0.7% specified as being from sub-Saharan #Africa 👇🏾 doi.org/10.1038/s41588…

The burden of #renal admissions in a tertiary #hospital in #SierraLeone👇🏾 doi.org/10.1186/s12882…

It's Friday! Our biweekly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba Stressful life events, neighbourhood characteristics, and systolic blood pressure in #SouthAfrica 👇🏾 doi.org/10.1038/s41371…

#helpWanted #medicalSupply #medicine #ukraine linkedin.com/pulse/emergenc…

"When the Polyclinic N°7 where she had worked for 20 years was evacuated on March 5, there was no way Olena Doro gave up being a doctor and stayed home." Read Dr. Doro's full story 👇and how you can support the #emergency #relief we are carrying out for #Ukrainian #doctors

#SouthSouth partnerships in #cardiovascular #research in Africa: empowering the next generation of cardiovascular researchers... (learn more👇🏾) doi.org/10.1093/eurhea…

A concerning high prevalence of pre-hypertension and #hypertension among primary school learners (learn more 👇🏾) doi.org/10.1186/s12887…

Our biweekly #globalhealth review with a focus on #africa by @rGayeBamba Deaths from noncommunicable diseases #NCDs on the rise in #Africa (learn more👇🏾) afro.who.int/news/deaths-no…