Rheumatic Heart Disease Is a Neglected Disease Relative to Its Burden Worldwide: Findings From Global Burden of Disease 2019

Rheumatic Heart Disease Is a Neglected Disease Relative to Its Burden Worldwide: Findings From Global Burden of Disease 2019

Background Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) takes a heavy toll in low‐ and middle‐income countries. We aimed to present worldwide estimates for the burden of the RHD during 1990 to 2019 using the GBD (Global Burden of Disease) study. Methods and Results Sociodemographic index (SDI) and age‐period‐cohor...

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Main Authors: Seyyed‐Hadi Ghamari, Mohsen Abbasi‐Kangevari, Sahar Saeedi Moghaddam, Arya Aminorroaya, Negar Rezaei, Parnian Shobeiri, Zahra Esfahani, Mohammad‐Reza Malekpour, Nazila Rezaei, Ali Ghanbari, Mohammad Keykhaei, Mohammadreza Naderian, Bagher Larijani, Mohamad Taghi Majnoon, Farshad Farzadfar, Ali H. Mokdad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2022-07-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
disability‐adjusted life years
global burden of disease
heart
rheumatic fever
rheumatic heart disease
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.122.025284

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