Determinants of Mortality from Cardiovascular Disease in the Slums of Nairobi, Kenya

• Main Authors: Frederick M. Wekesah (Author), Kerstin Klipstein-Grobusch (Author), Diederick E. Grobbee (Author), Damazo Kadengye (Author), Gershim Asiki (Author), Catherine K. Kyobutungi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Ubiquity Press, 2020-04-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) comprise eighty percent of non-communicable disease (NCD) burden in low- and middle-income countries and are increasingly impacting the poor inequitably. Traditional and socioeconomic factors were analyzed for their association with CVD mortality over 10 yea...