World Heart Federation Briefing on Prevention: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Low-Income Countries

Friedrich Thienemann; Fausto Pinto; Diederick E Grobbee; Michael Boehm; Nooshin Bazargani; Junbo Ge; Karen Sliwa

doi:10.5334/gh.778

World Heart Federation Briefing on Prevention: Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Low-Income Countries

Glob Heart. 2020 Apr 9;15(1):31. doi: 10.5334/gh.778.

Authors

Friedrich Thienemann^{1

2

3}, Fausto Pinto^{3

4}, Diederick E Grobbee^{3

5}, Michael Boehm⁶, Nooshin Bazargani³, Junbo Ge^{3

7}, Karen Sliwa^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Research in Africa and Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, ZA.
² Department of Internal Medicine, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, CH.
³ World Heart Federation, Rue de Malatrex 32, 1201 Geneva, CH.
⁴ Santa Maria University Hospital, CAML, CCUL, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisbon, PT.
⁵ Julius Global Health, the Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, NL.
⁶ University of Saarland, Homburg, DE.
⁷ ZS-hospital, Shanghai, CN.

PMID: 32489804
PMCID: PMC7218761
DOI: 10.5334/gh.778

Abstract

In December 2019, the novel coronavirus Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak started in Wuhan, the capital of Hubei province in China. Since then it has spread to many other regions, including low-income countries.

Keywords: Africa; COVID-19; cardiovascular disease; coronavirus; low income countries; middle income countries.

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / epidemiology
Coronavirus Infections / prevention & control*
Coronavirus Infections / transmission
Developing Countries / statistics & numerical data*
Humans
Pandemics / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / epidemiology
Pneumonia, Viral / prevention & control*
Pneumonia, Viral / transmission
Poverty / statistics & numerical data*
SARS-CoV-2