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Diagnostic accuracy of electrocardiography and NT-proBNP for mild cardiac dysfunction among long-term breast cancer survivors [Cardiovascular disease]

Annals of Family Medicine

This ideally should be detected in primary care, since most specialist follow-up care for breast cancer is discontinued after five years. While echocardiography is the gold standard to diagnose LVSD, its limited accessibility in primary care poses challenges.

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Pacific communities co-designing and leading interventions to prevent gout and rheumatic fever in New Zealand [Community based participatory research]

Annals of Family Medicine

Context: After a Samoan patient from New Zealand (NZ) attended a PACE workshop at NAPCRG in 2016 with her general practitioner, she was inspired to set up a Pacific community group to work towards better health outcomes for Pacific people living in South Auckland, NZ.

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