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CONTENTS
Vol 28, No 5, SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2017
319 Red cell distribution width is correlated with extensive coronary artery disease in
patients with diabetes mellitus
A Celik • M Karayakali • F Altunkas • K Karaman • A Arisoy • K Ceyhan • H Kadi • F Koc
324 Prevalence of obesity and body size perceptions in urban and rural Senegal:
new insight on the epidemiological transition in West Africa
E Macia • E Cohen • L Gueye • G Boetsch • P Duboz
REVIEW ARTICLE
331 Anaemia and iron deficiency in heart failure: epidemiological gaps, diagnostic
challenges and therapeutic barriers in sub-Saharan Africa
A Makubi • J Lwakatare • OS Ogah • L Rydén • LH Lund • J Makani
CONGRESS NEWS
338 Building and strengthening capacity for cardiovascular research in Africa through
technical training workshops: a report of the joint course on health research methods
by the Clinical Research Education Networking and Consultancy and the Ivorian
Society of Cardiology
B Dzekem • JBA Kacou • M Abanda • E Kramoh • Y Yapobi • S Kingue • AP Kengne • A Dzudie
PUBLISHED ONLINE (Available on and in PubMed)
CASE REPORTS
e1 Atrial myxoma: a rare cause of hemiplegia in children
U Onubogu • W Boma • O Boma
e4 Liddle’s syndrome in an African male due to a novel frameshift mutation in the
beta-subunit of the epithelial sodium channel gene
R Freercks • S Meldau • E Jones • J Ensor • C Weimers-Willard • B Rayner