title: [Cardiovascular disease: a view from global health perspective].
abstract: Globalization has facilitated the movement of large number of people around the world, leading modern clinicians to attend patients with rare or forgotten diseases. In the last few years many doctors are working in developing countries as volunteers or expatriates. The aim of this article is to summarize the basic epidemiological, clinical and therapeutic knowledge of the main cardiovascular diseases that a medical doctor from a developed country may attend in a tropical rural hospital, or with challenging diseases in patients coming from developing countries.
authors.affiliation: Servicio de Medicina Interna, Clínica Nuestra Señora de la Paz, Hnos. de San Juan de Dios, Madrid, España. Alejandro.Salinas@sjd.es
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Salinas Botrán
authors.forename: José Manuel
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Ramos Rincón
authors.forename: Miguel
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: de Górgolas Hernández-Mora
mesh_terms: D000349:Africa; D001208:Asia; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D015897:Comorbidity; D019049:Developed Countries; D003906:Developing Countries; D054242:Emigrants and Immigrants; D019353:Endemic Diseases; D005006:Ethnicity; D014943:Global Health; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D015995:Prevalence; D012424:Rural Population; D014195:Travel; D014330:Tropical Medicine
keywords: Cardiovascular disease; Enfermedad cardiovascular; Global health; Globalización; Globalization; Medicina tropical; Salud global; Tropical medicine