Editorial: Gaps, priorities, and advances in cardiovascular medicine in Africa

Ruan Kruger; Augustine Odili; Lebo F Gafane-Matemane

doi:10.3389/fcvm.2023.1260406

Editorial: Gaps, priorities, and advances in cardiovascular medicine in Africa

Front Cardiovasc Med. 2023 Aug 9:10:1260406. doi: 10.3389/fcvm.2023.1260406. eCollection 2023.

Authors

Ruan Kruger^{1

2}, Augustine Odili³, Lebo F Gafane-Matemane^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Hypertension in Africa Research Team (HART), North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
² MRC Research Unit for Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
³ Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Clinical Sciences, College of Health Sciences, University of Abuja, Abuja, Nigeria.

No abstract available

Keywords: Africa; cardiovascular disease; cardiovascular health; innovation; medicine; policy; priorities.

Publication types

Editorial

Grants and funding

The authors received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. RK is partially funded by the South African Research Chairs Initiative (SARChI) of the Department of Science and Innovation and National Research Foundation (NRF) of South Africa (Unique Identification Number: 86895). Any opinion, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors, and therefore, the NRF does not accept any liability in this regard.