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The Effect of Rheumatic Heart Disease Awareness on Primary School Students' Knowledge According to 100 Million Health Initiative [PDF]

Egyptian Journal of Health Care
Background: Rheumatic Heart Disease Awareness is crucial, since rheumatic fever can be prevented from progressing to RHD, which can result in heart failure, stroke, and even death, early detection and treatment are essential.
Ayiat Allah Wagdy Farag, Warda Abd-elmoaty Azab Yousef, Nesrin Ahmed Naguib Ghazal, Aya mahmoud sharbash, Hend Mohamed Elsayed Afefy   +4 more
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Rheumatic Heart Disease among Pregnant Women with Cardiac Diseases in a Tertiary Care Center of Nepal: A Descriptive Cross-sectional Study

Journal of Nepal Medical Association, 2021
Introduction: Cardiac disease in pregnancy is a major cause of maternal mortality and morbidity in women, particularly in resource limited countries like Nepal. Rheumatic Heart Disease is the commonest cardiac disease complicating pregnancy.
Basant Sharma, Eliza Koirala, Sudhir Regmi, Jaya Dhungana, Bandana Khanal Neupane, Suraj Bhattarai   +5 more
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Evaluating the Relationship between Rheumatic Valvular Heart Disease ‌and Coronary Artery Diseases in Patient with Stable Angina in Isfahan City, Iran

مجله دانشکده پزشکی اصفهان, 2018
Background: Rheumatic heart disease and coronary artery diseases (CAD) are two of main health problems in developing countries. Rheumatic valvular heart disease is less common than coronary artery diseases but it has its importance.
Faezeh Farhang, Zahra Alizadeh, Nizal Sarrafzadegan, Ali Pourmoghaddas, Ghasem Yadegarfar   +4 more
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Compliance to the secondary prophylaxis and awareness of rheumatic heart disease: A cross-sectional study in low-income province of India

Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2020
Background: Rheumatic heart disease is a preventable problem and regular secondary prophylaxis and proper awareness about this disease among common people may reduce the burden of this disease in any region.
Arun Prasad, Abhiranjan Prasad, Birendra K Singh, Sanjeev Kumar   +3 more
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Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in the Kimberley: using hospitalisation data to find cases and describe trends

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objective: To describe the epidemiology of hospitalisations due to acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in the Kimberley region of Western Australia (WA) and use these data to improve completeness of the WA RHD Register. Methods:
Jacqueline Murdoch, Stephanie Davis, Janice Forrester, Lynette Masuda, Carole Reeve   +4 more
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Rheumatic heart disease: A review of the current status of global research activity [PDF]

, 2020
Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is a serious and long-term consequence of acute rheumatic fever (ARF), an autoimmune sequela of a mucosal infection by Streptococcus pyogenes (Group A Streptococcus, Strep A).
Good, Michael F, Pandey, Manisha, Ahmad, Tarek B, Kotiw, Michael, Dooley, Leanne M., Ahmad, Tarek B., Good, Micheal F., Dooley, Leanne M   +7 more
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Epidemiology of rheumatic heart disease. [PDF]

Archives of Disease in Childhood, 1988
We compared the incidence of rheumatic heart disease in elementary schoolchildren from low and high socioeconomic groups; children from one of the schools were rescreened 10 years later. The results showed that the incidence of rheumatic heart disease was significantly higher in low socioeconomic group but it is gradually declining.
Imamoglu, A, Ozen, Seza
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Evaluating efficiency and equity of prevention and control strategies for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease in India: an extended cost-effectiveness analysis

The Lancet Global Health, 2023
Summary: Background: There is a dearth of evidence on the cost-effectiveness of a combination of population-based primary, secondary, and tertiary prevention and control strategies for rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease.
Jyoti Dixit, PhD, Shankar Prinja, MD, Gaurav Jyani, MPH, Pankaj Bahuguna, PhD, Ankur Gupta, DM, Rajesh Vijayvergiya, DM, Rajesh Kumar, MD   +6 more
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Effectiveness of Systematic Echocardiographic Screening for Rheumatic Heart Disease in Nepalese Schoolchildren: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial. [PDF]

, 2021
Importance Echocardiographic screening allows for early detection of subclinical stages of rheumatic heart disease among children in endemic regions.
Uranw, Surendra, Rothenbühler, Martina, Sherpa, Kunjang, Odutayo, Ayodele, Karki, Prahlad, Jüni, Peter, Gurung, Keshar, Dhungana, Sahadeb, Pandey, Naveen, Shrestha, Nikesh Raj, Mahato, Rajan, Bastola, Santosh, Pilgrim, Thomas, Agrawal, Krishna, Shah, Prashant   +14 more
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Rheumatic heart disease in Indigenous young peoples

, 2021
Indigenous children and young peoples live with an inequitable burden of acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease. In this Review, we focus on the epidemiological burden and lived experience of these conditions for Indigenous young peoples in ...
Raphael Saginur, Anderson, A., Carapetis, J., Saginur, R., Brown, A., Schreiber, Y., Alex Brown, Yoko Schreiber, Jonathan Carapetis, Anneka Anderson, Vicki Wade, Wyber, R., Wade, V., Rosemary Wyber   +13 more
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