The age-standardized prevalence of HF in low- to middle-income countries may be much higher than modeling estimates suggest and signals the persistence of global CVD health disparities, according to researchers.
“Our data underscore that HF is a likely an underrecognized cardiovascular disease and health disparity, given the difference in modeling estimates as compared to our population-based data and given the difference in prevalence and age of onset among this Haitian cohort as compared to higher-income settings,” Justin R. Kingery, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at