Search strategy for MEDLINE, and adaptability to regional data bases
| Search | Search terms | Hits |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Heart failure [tw] OR cardiac failure [tw] OR cardiac insufficiency [tw] OR heart disease [tw] OR cardiac | |
| 2 | diabetes mellitus [tw] OR type 1 diabetes [tw] OR type 2 diabetes [tw] OR type 1 diabetes mellitus [tw] OR type 2 diabetic mellitus [tw] OR diabetes [tw] OR diabetics [tw] diabetic cardiomyopathy [tw] | |
| 3 | #1 AND #2 | |
| 4 | African filter((((Angola[tw] OR Benin[tw] OR Botswana[tw] OR “Burkina Faso”[tw] OR Burundi[tw] OR Cameroon[tw] OR “Cape Verde”[tw] OR “Central African Republic”[tw] OR Chad[tw] OR Comoros[tw] OR Congo[tw] OR “Democratic Republic of Congo”[tw] OR Djibouti[tw] OR “Equatorial Guinea”[tw] OR Eritrea[tw] OR Ethiopia[tw] OR Gabon[tw] OR Gambia[tw] OR Ghana[tw] OR Guinea[tw] OR “Guinea Bissau”[tw] OR “Ivory Coast”[tw] OR “Cote d'Ivoire”[tw] OR Kenya[tw] OR Lesotho[tw] OR Liberia[tw] OR Madagascar[tw] OR Malawi[tw] OR Mali[tw] OR Mauritania[tw] OR Mauritius[tw] OR Mozambique[tw] OR Namibia[tw] OR Niger[tw] OR Nigeria[tw] OR Principe[tw] OR Reunion[tw] OR Rwanda[tw] OR “Sao Tome”[tw] OR Senegal[tw] OR Seychelles[tw] OR “Sierra Leone”[tw] OR Somalia[tw] OR “South Africa”[tw] OR Sudan[tw] OR Swaziland[tw] OR Tanzania[tw] OR Togo[tw] OR Uganda[tw] OR “Western Sahara”[tw] OR Zambia[tw] OR Zimbabwe[tw] OR “Central Africa”[tw] OR “Central African”[tw] OR “West Africa”[tw] OR “West African”[tw] OR “Western Africa”[tw] OR “Western African”[tw] OR “East Africa”[tw] OR “East African”[tw] OR “Eastern Africa”[tw] OR “Eastern African”[tw] OR “South African”[tw] OR “Southern Africa”[tw] OR “Southern African”[tw] OR “sub Saharan Africa”[tw] OR “sub Saharan African”[tw] OR “subSaharan Africa”[tw] OR “subSaharan African”[tw] NOT “guinea pig” [tw] NOT “guinea pigs” [tw] NOT “aspergillus niger” [tw])))) | |
| 5 | # 3 AND # 4 Limits: 01/01/1995 to 31/08/2015 in English and French on humans |