Global, Regional, and National Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease, 1990–2015

Watkins, David; O. Johnson, Catherine; Colquhoun, Samantha; Karthikeyan, Ganesan; Beaton, Andrea; Bukhman, Gene; H. Forouzanfar, Mohammed; T. Longenecker, Christopher; M. Mayosi, Bongani; A. Mensah, George; Ramos Nascimento, Bruno; Luiz Pinho Ribeiro, Antônio; Sable, Craig; C. Steer, Andrew; Naghavi, Mohsen; H. Mokdad, Ali; J L Murray, Christopher; Vos, Theo; R. Carapetis, Jonathan; A Roth, Gregory

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1603693

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Global, Regional, and National Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease, 1990–2015

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Aug 23, 2017

Authors:

David Watkins

Catherine O. Johnson

Samantha Colquhoun

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Rheumatic heart disease remains an important preventable cause of cardiovascular death and disability, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. We estimated global, regional, and national trends in the prevalence of and mortality due to rheumatic heart disease as part of t...

Subject

Medicine

Heart disease

Burden of disease

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