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Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease
With interest, we read the article by Hajar[1] “Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease: A Historical Perspective.’’ We want to correct the mistake associated with the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in this article. There was a mistake in Table 2 called “Summary of the American Heart Association revised 2015 Jones criteria.” The statement “Low‐risk population: Acute rheumatic fever (...
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The Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease in Western Kenya: An Echocardiographic Study by Thomas Holland Duke Global Health Institute Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Christopher Woods, Supervisor ___________________________ G. Ralph Corey ___________________________ Nathan Thielman An abstract of a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the...
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Authors’ reply We acknowledge the large heterogeneity in reported prevalence of rheumatic heart disease documented in our systematic review, and concur with Peter Murray and Caroline Shaw that the statistical combination of heterogeneous studies might have drawbacks. The exploration of potential sources of heterogeneity is therefore important and could provide more insight than the mechanistic ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Heart Views
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1995-705X
DOI: 10.4103/heartviews.heartviews_3_17