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1 The Heart of Africa Clinical Profile of an Evolving Burden of Heart Disease in Africa Available digitally for download onto your computer, laptop, or mobile device. Explore the possibilities on Wiley.com or visit your preferred ebook retailer.

2 History & Purpose A decade in the making. Initial collaborations & discussions via he Heart of Soweto Study Initially proposed as an African textbook Lack of commercial interest Funding for publication (Wiley) provided via Baker IDI/Stewart Revised plan (research-based) & funding via the MacKillop Institute Purpose.. Designed to provide anyone with an interest in heart disease in Africa with an immediate sense of how the area is progressing from a clinical to research perspective in responding to this evolving epidemic Presents salient research uncovering the evolving burden of communicable and non-communicable forms of heart disease Subsidised (500 copies) distribution of the book to as many African-based researchers and clinicians as possible.

3 Contributors & Structure Senior Editors Prof Simon Stewart Prof Karen Sliwa Prof Ana OH Mocumbi Prof Albertino Damasceno Prof Mpiko Ntsekhe Assoc. Editors Ashley K Keates Cressida J McDermott Foreword Prof Bongani Mayosi Authors Clinicians & Researchers from throughout Africa

4 Section 1: Maternal Heart Health Karen Sliwa MD PhD FESC FACC Hatter Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa Spectrum of maternal cardiac disease in South Africa Karen Sliwa, John Anthony & Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner Trial of Bromocriptine Treatment for Post-Partum Cardiomyopathy Karen Sliwa, John Anthony & Denise Hilfiker-Kleiner

5 Section 2: Infant & Childhood heart disease Ana OH Mocumbi MD PhD FESC Instituto Nacional de Saude Ministerio da Saude Doencas Cronicas, Nao Transmissiveis Instituto, Maputo, Mocambique Congenital Heart Disease Ana Mocumbi, Tantchou Tchoumi, Jacques Cabral, John Musuku & Serigne A Ba Acquired Heart Disease Ana Mocumbi, Liesel Zuhlke & Peter Zilla

6 Section 3: Spectrum of risk & CVD in sub-saharan Africa Simon Stewart PhD FESC FAHA Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, ACU, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Cardiovascular risk in urban and rural African settings Kemi Tibazarwa, Karen Sliwa, Melinda Carrington, Okechukwu Ogah & Simon Stewart The African INTERHEART Study Krisela Steyn & Karen Sliwa The spectrum of heart disease in urban Africans: The Heart of Soweto Study Melinda Carrington, Karen Sliwa & Simon Stewart

7 Section 4: Infectious heart disease Mpiko Ntsekhe MD PhD Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa Rheumatic heart disease Simon Stewart, Melinda Carrington, Karen Sliwa Pericardial disease Mpiko Ntsekhe HIV-related heart disease Friedrich Thienemann, Melinda Carrington, Karen Sliwa, Mpiko Ntsekhe & Simon Stewart

8 Section 5: Noncommunicable heart disease Albertino Damasceno MD PhD Departamento de Medicina/Faculdade de Medicina Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Moçambique Acute coronary syndrome in the African context Anthony Becker Stroke in the African context Albertino Damasceno

9 Section 6: Heart failure Simon Stewart PhD FESC FAHA Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, ACU, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Acute heart failure Mahmoud Sani, Dike Ojji, Anastase Dzudie & Okechukwu Ogah Hypertensive heart failure Dike Ojji, Mahmoud Sani, Anastase Dzudie & Okechukwu Ogah Chronic heart failure Okechukwu Ogah, Anastase Dzudie, Dike Ojji & Mahmoud Sani Pulmonary hypertension & right heart failure Anastase Dzudie, Friedrich Thienemann, Okechukwu Ogah, Dike Ojji & Mahmoud Sani

10 Future Plans.. Book Distribution Ensure the book is freely available via the PASCAR website & is widely distributed 2 nd Edition Identify areas of strength & weakness in the book New research reports Wider distribution of African authors and report Heart of Africa Textbook Current engagement with future publishers Open access & on-line format African-specific clinical content Wide distribution of African authors/contributions

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