Table 1. Cardiovascular disease patterns in the Northern Region of Malawi in the period from 2001 through 2005.
| CVD pattern and demographic data | n = 3908 |
| Age in years (mean ± SD) | 39.9 ± 32.4 |
| Females (%) | 2299 (58.9%) |
| Referred from the in-patient department (%) | 246 (6.3%) |
| Valvular heart disease | 1315 |
| Rheumatic Heart Disease | 1176 |
| Predominantly MR* | 363 |
| Predominantly MS† | 204 |
| Predominantly AR‡ | 161 |
| Predominantly AS§ | 11 |
| Multivalvular | 437 |
| Mitral valve prolapse | 139 |
| Hypertensive heart disease | 945 |
| Complicated hypertension | 548 |
| End-stage renal failure | 78 |
| Stroke | 96 |
| Echo-diagnosed LVH|| | 235 |
| Hypertensive heart failure and/or pulmonary edema | 107 |
| Others | 32 |
| Uncomplicated hypertension | 397 |
| Cardiomyopathies | 726 |
| Dilated cardiomyopathy | 720 |
| Restrictive cardiomyopathy | 3 |
| Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | 3 |
| Pericardial disease | 553 |
| Pericardial effusion | 503 |
| Tuberculosis effusion | 492 |
| Malignant | 5 |
| Uremic | 3 |
| Cardiac tamponade | 3 |
| Constrictive pericarditis | 47 |
| Congenital heart disease | 173 |
| Ventricular septal defect | 78 |
| Atrial septal defect | 7 |
| Patent ductus arteriosus | 19 |
| Pulmonary stenosis | 11 |
| Tetralogy of Fallot | 13 |
| Others | 45 |
| Arrhythmia | 142 |
| Atrial ectopics | 57 |
| Ventricular ectopics | 23 |
| Supraventricular tachycardia | 4 |
| Atrial fibrillation (lone) | 27 |
| Symptomatic bradycardia (possible SSSS) | 7 |
| Advanced degree atrioventricular block | 11 |
| Others | 13 |
| Other CVD patterns | 54 |
| Endocarditis | 4 |
| Deep venous thrombosis | 7 |
| Pulmonary embolism | 3 |
| Myocardial infarction | 3 |
| Others | 37 |
*: mitral regurgitation; †: mitral stenosis; ‡: aortic regurgitation; §: aortic stenosis; ||: left ventricular hypertrophy