Friday, September 27, 2013

Current estimate of around quarter of a million deaths annually worldwide vastly underestimates true burden of rheumatic heart disease

A paper in the RHD special issue of Global Heart, the journal of the World Heart Federation, analyses the burden of disease and suggests that numbers published to date (ranging from at least 233,000 deaths per year upwards) could be substantial underestimates for a variety of reasons, most commonly lack of high quality (or in some cases any) data from high-prevalence countries and regions...

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