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EDITORIAL
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The challenges of improving benzathine penicillin usage for prevention of rheumatic fever in Africa
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What is in a number: the impact factor, citation analysis and 30 years of publishing the Cardiovascular Journal of Africa
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CARDIOVASCULAR TOPICS
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Factors associated with sub-optimal control of anticoagulation in patients with prosthetic heart valves taking oral anticoagulants in a sub-Saharan African setting
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Associations between body fat distribution and cardiometabolic risk factors in mixed-ancestry South African women and men
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Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography in assessing myocardial viability in a tertiary academic centre in Johannesburg, South Africa: a pilot study
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Effects of cardiopulmonary bypass on pulmonary function in COPD patients undergoing beating heart coronary artery bypass surgery
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The walking estimated limitation stated by history (WELSH): a visual tool to self-reported walking impairment in a predominantly illiterate population
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Ellisras Longitudinal Study 2017: body frame variation and adiposity among Polokwane private school children (ELS 9)
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A 10-year follow-up study of demographic and cardiometabolic factors in HIV-infected South Africans
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Relationship between obesity and blood pressure
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Availability and administration of benzathine penicillin G for the prevention of rheumatic fever in Africa: report of the Working Group on Penicillin, Pan-African Society of Cardiology Task Force on Rheumatic Heart Disease
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