Socio-economic deprivation associated with acute rheumatic fever. A hospital-based case-control study in Bangladesh

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 322-332

  Zaman, Mohammad Mostafa ^a   Yoshiike, Nobuo ^b   Chowdhury, Anisul Haque ^c   Jalil, Md Qumrul ^c   Mahmud, Razia Sultana ^c   Faruque, Ghulam Mohammed ^d   Rouf, Mian Abdur ^c   Haque, K M H S Sirajul ^c   Tanaka, Heizo ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH AND NUTRITION   (Japan)

^c National Center for Control of Rheumatic Fever and Heart Diseases   (Bangladesh)

^d National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BANGLADESH; BODY HEIGHT; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GROWTH RETARDATION; HOUSING; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALNUTRITION; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RHEUMATIC FEVER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STREPTOCOCCUS GROUP A; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0031400752     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.1997.tb00011.x     Document Type: Article

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