Clinical epidemiology of congenital heart disease in Nigerian children, 2012-2017.

Ekanem N EkureNnenna KaluOgochukwu J SokunbiPaul KruszkaAkinsanya D Olusegun-JosephDesmond IkebuduDavid BalaMaximilian MuenkeAdebowale Adeyemo

Published in: Birth defects research (2018)

This study is a large case series of CHD from a single site in sub-Saharan Africa utilizing clinical, epidemiological, and developmental considerations. It provides a rich and up-to-date description of the clinical epidemiology of CHD in Nigerian children while yielding data that could be useful for designing genetic, molecular, and biomarker studies.

Keyphrases

congenital heart disease
young adults
gene expression
electronic health record
dna methylation
genome wide
machine learning