Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in school children (5-15 years) in a rural block of Srinagar

JK Practitioner

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 160-162

  Kaul, Rauf Ur Rashid ^a,b   Masoodi, Muneer Ahmad ^a   Wani, Khurshid Ahmad ^a   Hassan, G ^a   Qureshi, Khurshid Ahmed ^a  

^a GOVERNMENT MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

^b NONE   (India)

Author keywords

Overcrowding; Rheumatic Heart Disease; Simple Random Sampling (SRS); Valvular lesion; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AIR CONDITIONING; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HOUSING; HUMAN; INDIA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MALE; MITRAL VALVE DISEASE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARENT; PATIENT SELECTION; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; RANDOMIZATION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SECONDARY PREVENTION; SOCIOECONOMICS;

EID: 28444495439     PISSN: 09718834     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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