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Community-based prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in rural Ethiopia: Five-year follow-up

BACKGROUND: As little is known about the prevalence and clinical progression of subclinical (latent) rheumatic heart disease (RHD) in sub-Saharan Africa, we report the results of a 5 year follow-up of a community based, echocardiographic study of the disease, originally carried out in a rural area a...

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Autores principales: Gemechu, Tadesse, Parry, Eldryd H. O., Yacoub, Magdi H., Phillips, David I. W., Kotit, Susy
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8513824/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34644305
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0009830