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Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease

Author(s) -

Joanna Lawrence,

Jonathan R. Carapetis,

Kalinda Griffiths,

Keith Edwards,

John R. Condon

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

circulation

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 7.795

H-Index - 607

eISSN - 1524-4539

pISSN - 0009-7322

DOI - 10.1161/circulationaha.113.001477

Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , heart disease , acute rheumatic fever , mortality rate , rheumatic fever , population , epidemiology , indigenous , pediatrics , rate ratio , confidence interval , disease , heart failure , demography , environmental health , ecology , physics , sociology , optics , biology

Although acute rheumatic fever (ARF) and its sequel, rheumatic heart disease (RHD), continue to cause a large burden of morbidity and mortality in disadvantaged populations, most studies investigating the effectiveness of control programs date from the 1950s. A control program, including a disease register, in the Northern Territory of Australia where the Indigenous population has high rates of ARF and RHD allowed us to examine current disease incidence and progression.

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