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High Heart Disease Rates Expected for Africa

allAfrica.com: "It's estimated that within the next 20 years, about 1.3 million people per year will be affected by heart disease in Africa, says Wits Professor Karen Sliwa-Hanhle.
'Africa also faces a threat from other forms of heart disease due to unique conditions like peripartum cardiomyopathy, an often deadly cardiac condition affecting African women after childbirth."

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