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Editorial Neglected Tropical Diseases as Hidden Causes of Cardiovascular Disease 1¤ 2 3 Yasmin Moolani , Gene Bukhman , Peter J. Hotez * 1 George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, District of Columbia, United States of America, 2 Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Sabin Vaccine Institute and Texas Children’s Center for Vaccine Development, Department of Pediatrics (Section of Pediatric Tropical Medicine) and Molecular Virology Microbiology, National School of Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States of America An important component of the burden of factors apart from the lifestyle changes infections may account for a significant cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income linked to CNCDs in high-income countries component of each of these cardiovascular countries may be attributed to the neglected tropical [7]. Specifically with respect to neglected disease categories (Table 1). diseases. populations, an important component of There is a growing awareness of the cardiovascular disease may be attributable Protozoan NTDs: American and importance of chronic non-communicable to neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) and African Trypanosomiasis diseases (CNCDs) in the world’s low- and other infections of poverty. For example, middle-income countries (LMICs). Begin- the Heart of Soweto Study from South Approximately 10 million people are ning in the 1990s, Murray and Lopez Africa identified rheumatic heart disease, infected with Trypanosoma