Authors
Misch KA.
Institution
Department of Pathology, Goroka Base Hospital, Eastern Highlands Province,
Papua New Guinea.
Title
Ischaemic heart disease in
urbanized Papua New Guinea. An autopsy
study.
Source
Cardiology. 75(1):71-5, 1988.
Abstract
Ischaemic heart disease
was unknown in Papua New Guinea until 1964 when the first
case was reported. Since then there has been a rapid rise in frequency
confined to its major urban area, the capital, Port Moresby. The findings are
based on post-mortems in Port Moresby and in Goroka, one of the major towns
in the Highlands with its more traditional population, where
ischaemic heart disease is
now beginning to be seen.
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