Table 2.
Disability‐Adjusted Life Years and Percentage of Biomedical Research Publications Due to Cardiovascular Disease From the Top 15 Countries in Africa
| Country | Percentage of DALYs Due to CVD* | Mean Percentage of DALYs Due to CVD, 2002–2010* | Percentage of Biomedical Research Publications Due to CVD, 1999–2008 | Percentage of Biomedical Research Publications Due to CVD, 2009–2013 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 2004 | 2010 | ||||
| Egypt | 16.1 | 17.1 | 24.5 | 19.2 | 6.4 | 7.9 |
| Tunisia | 15.4 | 12.0 | 18.2 | 15.2 | 7.3 | 6.6 |
| Morocco | 10.7 | 12.0 | 13.2 | 12.0 | 6.5 | 5.6 |
| Algeria | 7.2 | 8.7 | 13.4 | 9.8 | 6.2 | 6.3 |
| Ghana | 4.6 | 5.3 | 6.6 | 5.5 | 3.1 | 2.4 |
| South Africa | 4.7 | 5.8 | 5.6 | 5.3 | 6.1 | 5.4 |
| Côte d'Ivoire | 3.6 | 4.2 | 4.4 | 4.1 | 3.5 | 3.3 |
| Cameroon | 3.7 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 4.1 | 5.2 | 4.1 |
| Senegal | 3.9 | 5.2 | 3.0 | 4.0 | 1.8 | 4.8 |
| Zimbabwe | 2.1 | 2.7 | 5.4 | 3.4 | 1.7 | 1.6 |
| Ethiopia | 3.0 | 3.6 | 3.6 | 3.4 | 2.3 | 1.7 |
| Kenya | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.2 | 3.1 | 1.0 | 1.7 |
| Nigeria | 3.1 | 3.8 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 4.4 | 5.0 |
| Tanzania | 2.6 | 3.9 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 1.7 |
| Mozambique | 2.1 | 3.5 | 2.3 | 2.7 | 6.0 | 7.3 |
*
The percentage of disability‐adjusted life years (DALYs) due to cardiovascular disease (CVD) measures the percentage of total years of life lost due to premature death and years lived with disability that were due to CVD in a given country.
*
Mean percentage of DALYs due to CVD is the average of the DALY figures from 2002, 2004, and 2010.