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Prevalence and pattern of rheumatic heart disease in the Nigerian savannah: an echocardiographic study.

This article is from Cardiovascular Journal of Africa , volume 18 . Abstract Background: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) remains a major public health problem in developing countries. Whereas Africa has 10% of the world’s population, as many as half of the 2.4 million children affected by RHD globally live on the continent. RHD accounts for a major proportion of all cardiovascular disease in children and young adults in African countries. While acute rheumatic fever is on the decline even in the developing world, there are still a large number of chronic rheumatic heart disease cases, often comp…