Table 2.
Main search strategy for EMBASE.
| #1 | ‘Heart failure’ OR ‘cardiac failure’ OR ‘cardiac insufficiency’ OR ‘heart disease’ | 658,990 |
| #2 | 'africa':ab,ti OR 'algeria':ab,ti OR 'angola':ab,ti OR 'benin':ab,ti OR 'botswana':ab,ti OR 'burkina faso':ab,ti OR 'burundi':ab,ti OR 'cameroon':ab,ti OR 'canary islands':ab,ti OR 'cape verde':ab,ti OR 'central african republic':ab,ti OR 'chad':ab,ti OR 'comoros':ab,ti OR 'congo':ab,ti OR 'democratic republic of congo':ab,ti OR 'djibouti':ab,ti OR 'egypt':ab,ti OR 'equatorial guinea':ab,ti OR 'eritrea':ab,ti OR 'ethiopia':ab,ti OR 'gabon':ab,ti OR 'gambia':ab,ti OR 'ghana':ab,ti OR 'guinea':ab,ti OR 'guinea bissau':ab,ti OR 'ivory coast':ab,ti OR 'cote d ivoire':ab,ti OR 'jamahiriya':ab,ti OR 'kenya':ab,ti OR 'lesotho':ab,ti OR 'liberia':ab,ti OR 'libya':ab,ti OR 'madagascar':ab,ti OR 'malawi':ab,ti OR 'mali':ab,ti OR 'mauritania':ab,ti OR 'mauritius':ab,ti OR 'mayotte':ab,ti OR 'morocco':ab,ti OR 'mozambique':ab,ti OR 'namibia':ab,ti OR 'niger':ab,ti OR 'nigeria':ab,ti OR 'principe':ab,ti OR 'reunion':ab,ti OR 'rwanda':ab,ti OR 'sao tome':ab,ti OR 'senegal':ab,ti OR 'seychelles':ab,ti OR 'sierra leone':ab,ti OR 'somalia':ab,ti OR 'south africa':ab,ti OR 'st helena':ab,ti OR 'sudan':ab,ti OR 'swaziland':ab,ti OR 'tanzania':ab,ti OR 'togo':ab,ti OR 'tunisia':ab,ti OR 'uganda':ab,ti OR 'western sahara':ab,ti OR 'zaire':ab,ti OR 'zambia':ab,ti OR 'zimbabwe':ab,ti OR 'central africa':ab,ti OR 'central african':ab,ti OR 'west africa':ab,ti OR 'west african':ab,ti OR 'western africa':ab,ti OR 'western african':ab,ti OR 'east africa':ab,ti OR 'east african':ab,ti OR 'eastern africa':ab,ti OR 'eastern african':ab,ti OR 'north africa':ab,ti OR 'north african':ab,ti OR 'northern africa':ab,ti OR 'northern african':ab,ti OR 'south african':ab,ti OR 'southern africa':ab,ti OR 'southern african':ab,ti OR 'sub saharan africa':ab,ti OR 'sub saharan african':ab,ti OR 'subsaharan africa':ab,ti OR 'subsaharan african':ab,ti | 408,647 |
| #3 | #1 AND #2 | 4165 |
| #4 | #3 AND Search limits: From 1 January 1996 to 10 Oct 2017 | 1660 |