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Table 4 Spectrum of echocardiographic diagnosed heart diseases (excluding individuals with normal study)

From: Spectrum of heart diseases in a new cardiac service in Nigeria: An echocardiographic study of 1441 subjects in Abeokuta

 

All

Males

Females

Diagnosis

Frequency

%

Frequency

%

Frequency

%

Hypertensive Heart Disease

817

82.4

447

83.6

370

81.0

Valvular Heart Disease

53

5.3

20

3.7

33

7.2

Cardiomyopathy

44

4.5

21

3.9

23

5.0

Pericardial Diseases

26

2.6

20

3.7

6

1.3

Cor-pulmonale

23

2.3

13

2.4

10

2.3

Ischaemic Heart Disease

9

0.9

8

1.5

1

0.2

Congenital Heart Disease

6

0.6

1

0.2

5

1.1

Diabetic Heart Disease

6

0.6

4

0.8

2

0.4

Thyroid Heart Disease

6

0.6

0

0.0

6

1.3

Atrial Tumour

1

0.1

1

0.2

0

0.0

Sickle Cell Cardiopathy

1

0.1

0

0.0

1

0.2

TOTAL

992

100

535

100

457

100