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Afro-Caribbean Heart Failure in the United Kingdom: Cause, Outcomes, and ATTR V122I Cardiac Amyloidosis.

Circulation. Heart failure - 1 Sept 2016

Dungu Jason N, Papadopoulou Sofia A, Wykes Katharine, Mahmood Ihtisham, Marshall Joseph, Valencia Oswaldo, Fontana Marianna, Whelan Carol J, Gillmore Julian D, Hawkins Philip N, Anderson Lisa J

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BACKGROUND: It has been reported that subjects of African descent present with heart failure at a younger age and because of different causes than whites. We present contemporary data from UK Afro-Caribbean patients in London. METHODS AND RESULTS: All patients with heart failure presenting to St George's Hospital Heart Failure clinic between 2005 and 2012 were included (n=1392). Patients were predominantly white...

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PMID: 27618855
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.116.003352

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