Incidence of congestive cardiomyopathy

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1 July 1978

journal article
research article
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Postgraduate Medical Journal

Vol. 54 (633) , 435-439
https://doi.org/10.1136/pgmj.54.633.435

Abstract

Summary: In a stable population of 250 000, the diagnosis of congestive cardiomyopathy could be firmly established in fifty-nine cases during a period of 8 years. This gives an incidence of the disease of 3/100 000/year. If cases disclosed at post-mortem during the same period are included, the frequency of the disease will equal 5/100 000/year.

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