Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease among school-children in Aden, Yemen

Annals of Tropical Paediatrics

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 37-46

  Ba Saddik, Iman A ^a,c   Munibari, A A ^b   Al Naqeeb, M S ^a   Parry, C M ^d   Hart, C A ^d   Cuevas, L E ^c   Coulter, J B S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADEN   (Yemen)

^b SANA A UNIVERSITY   (Yemen)

^c LIVERPOOL SCHOOL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENZATHINE PENICILLIN;

ADOLESCENT; AORTA STENOSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CROWDING; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HOUSING; HUMAN; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE PROLAPSE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PATENT DUCTUS ARTERIOSUS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PULMONARY VALVE STENOSIS; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SCHOOL CHILD; YEMEN;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; YEMEN;

EID: 79551661949     PISSN: 02724936     EISSN: 14653281     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1465328110Y.0000000007     Document Type: Article

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