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Keshan disease is a congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of Coxsackievirus, named after Keshan County of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, where symptoms were first noted.
Sep 29, 2021 · Keshan disease is a serious condition that can lead to cardiovascular disease, stroke, cancer, or death if a person does not receive treatment. Although it may not be...
Mar 9, 2021 · Keshan disease (KD) as an endemic, highly lethal cardiomyopathy, first reported in northeast China's Keshan County in 1935. The clinical manifestations of patients with KD include primarily congestive heart failure, acute heart failure, and cardiac arrhythmia.
May 7, 2024 · Keshan disease is an endemic cardiomyopathy first discovered in the northeastern Chinese county of Keshan. This cardiomyopathy primarily occurs in regions with selenium-deficient soils, particularly in specific rural and remote areas, leading to severe health complications and occasional fatalities.
Keshan disease is a congestive cardiomyopathy caused by a combination of dietary deficiency of selenium and the presence of a mutated strain of Coxsackievirus, named after Keshan County of Heilongjiang province, Northeast China, where symptoms were first noted.
May 1, 2014 · Identifying selenium deficiency as a cause of an endemic disease provided the impetus to explore both the fundamental biologic properties of selenoproteins and the molecular events responsible...
Jun 19, 2020 · Keshan disease (KD) is an endemic cardiomyopathy with myocardial lesions for which the precise etiology has not been determined. It was named after the location where it was first identified: Keshan County in China. KD is mainly distributed in a selenium-deficient zone from northeast to southwest China.
Feb 27, 2019 · Keshan disease (KD) is a novel cardiomyopathy of unclear cause which only occurred in some poor rural areas of China, characterized by obvious yearly and seasonal prevalence as well as vulnerability for self-sufficient farming population, killing hundreds of thousands of people over last century.
Keshan disease is an endemic cardiomyopathy first discovered in the northeastern Chinese county of Keshan. This cardiomyopathy primarily occurs in regions with selenium-deficient soils, particularly in specific rural and remote areas, leading to severe health complications and occasional fatalities.
Mar 8, 2021 · Keshan disease (KD) as an endemic, highly lethal cardiomyopathy, first reported in northeast China's Keshan County in 1935. The clinical manifestations of patients with KD include primarily congestive heart failure, acute heart failure, and cardiac arrhythmia.
