title: Heart failure: meeting the challenges of surveillance and knowledge translation in resource-poor settings.
abstract: Heart failure (HF) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in high income countries. Shortage of population based HF studies from Low and Middle Income countries (LMIC) make global prevalence estimates difficult. In this editorial we discuss the possibility of generating HF data in LMICs by initiating HF surveillance systems integrated into the existing health surveillance system.
authors.affiliation: Center of Excellence - Center for Cardio-metabolic Risk Reduction in South Asia, Public Health Foundation of India, New Delhi, India. safraj.s@ccdcindia.org
authors.forename: Shahulhameed
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Safraj
authors.forename: Vamadevan S
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Ajay
authors.forename: Dorairaj
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Prabhakaran
mesh_terms: D019049:Developed Countries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003906:Developing Countries / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014943:Global Health; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006295:Health Resources; D006333:Heart Failure / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans; D011159:Population Surveillance; D015995:Prevalence; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical