Prevalence and outcome of subclinical rheumatic heart disease in India: The RHEUMATIC (Rheumatic Heart Echo Utilisation and Monitoring Actuarial Trends in Indian Children) study

Heart

Volumn 97, Issue 24, 2011, Pages 2018-2022

  Saxena, Anita ^a   Ramakrishnan, Sivasubramanian ^a   Roy, Ambuj ^a   Seth, Sandeep ^a   Krishnan, Anand ^a   Misra, Puneet ^a   Kalaivani, Mani ^a   Bhargava, Balram ^a   Flather, Marcus D ^b   Poole Wilson, Philip P A ^b  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

^b ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INDEPENDENT VARIABLE; INDIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REMISSION; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL STATUS; STUDY DESIGN;

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MASS SCREENING; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 82255186597     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: 1468201X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heartjnl-2011-300792     Document Type: Article

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