Rheumatic Heart Disease-Attributable Mortality at Ages 5–69 Years in Fiji: A Five-Year, National, Population-Based Record-Linkage Cohort Study

BACKGROUND: Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is considered a major public health problem in developing countries, although scarce data are available to substantiate this. Here we quantify mortality from RHD in Fiji during 2008–2012 in people aged 5–69 years. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Using 1,773,999 record...

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Autores principales: Parks, Tom, Kado, Joseph, Miller, Anne E., Ward, Brenton, Heenan, Rachel, Colquhoun, Samantha M., Bärnighausen, Till W., Mirabel, Mariana, Bloom, David E., Bailey, Robin L., Tukana, Isimeli N., Steer, Andrew C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26371755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004033

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4570761/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26371755
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0004033

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