Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease among school children in Ethiopia: A multisite echocardiography-based screening

Yadeta, Dejuma; Hailu, Abrha Bsrat; Haileamlak, Abraham; Gedlu, Etsgenet; Guteta, Senbeta; Tefera, Endale; Tigabu, Zemene; Tesfaye, Hagazi; Daniel, Wandimu; Mekonnen, Daniel; Zelalem, Meseret; Tekleab, Yohannes; Bekele, Alemayehu; Aklilu, Tamirat Moges; Moges, Tamirat; Hailu, Tedros; Abdosh, Tekabe; Yusuf, Nejib; Ayele, Dawit Getnet; Wuobshet, Kindie; Tadele, Henok; Lemma, Kinfe; Shiferaw, Solomon; Giday, Araya; Mekonnen, Demeke; Alemu, Getnet; Zühlke, Liesl; Allison, Thomas G.; Nkomo, V T; Engel, Mark E

doi:10.1016/j.ijcard.2016.06.232

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“…Echocardiographic screening for RHD is superior to clinical screening alone which underestimates the burden of RHD. Since the standardization of criteria for echocardiographic screening of RHD by WHF, several studies have been done on school children in Africa and other regions. There are regional variations in prevalence of RHD as risk factors of the disease are largely socio‐economic in nature.…”

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Echocardiographic screening of 4107 Nigerian school children for rheumatic heart disease

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Echocardiographic screening of 4107 Nigerian school children for rheumatic heart disease

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“…As one of the sub-Saharan countries, the risk factors for rheumatic heart disease, such as illiteracy, scarce access to medical care and lack of echocardiography-based screening practices, are prevalent. A recent echocardiography-based school survey involving different regions of the country showed rheumatic heart disease (World Heart Federation criteria)9 had a prevalence of 19 cases per 1000 school children aged between 7–18 years 17…”

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Spectrum of cardiovascular diseases in six main referral hospitals of Ethiopia

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Our study shows that chronic rheumatic valvular heart disease is the most common cardiovascular diagnosis among patients seen at cardiology clinics of six referral/teaching hospitals in the country, followed by congenital heart diseases. Hypertensive and ischaemic heart diseases also accounted for a significant proportion of the cases. Therefore, strategies directed towards primary and secondary prevention of acute rheumatic fever as well as prevention of risk factors for hypertension and ischaemic heart disease may need to be strengthened.

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“…The prevalence rates of VHD in the current study were higher than those reported in previous studies. The discrepancies in prevalence may be accounted for the reasons as follow: first, the study population is different and there may be a racial difference in the prevalence of VHD [18]; Second, the health conditions between industrialized and developing countries are different [19]; Third, each study may adopt different definitions of VHD [20–21]. In our study, VHD contained symptomatic and asymptomatic VHD, while in other studies, the definition of VHD may be only symptomatic significant VHD.…”

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Prevalence of valvular heart diseases and associated risk factors in Han, Uygur and Kazak population in Xinjiang, China

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BackgroundValvular heart diseases (VHD) is very common in clinical practice and has became the subject of growing attention in the field of cardiovascular medicine. Our aim was to assess the prevalence and correlates of VHD in the general population in Xinjiang, China.MethodsUsing a 4-stage stratified cluster random sampling method, a total of 14618 participants were recruited in the Cardiovascular Risk Survey (CRS) study. The participants’ personal information, medical history were assessed by questionnaire. VHD was diagnosed by transthoracic echocardiography. We carried out the statistical analysis utilizing SPSS Statistics version 19.0.ResultsIn the total study group, VHD was observed in 1397 (9.65%) individuals. The prevalence rates of VHD in Han, Uygur and Kazak group are 13.51%, 2.71% and 12.29% respectively. The prevalence rates of VHD increased strikingly with age (all P < 0.001). The results of multinomial regression analysis indicated that VHD were related to age in Han group, to age smoking and hypertension in Uygur group, to age and hypertension in Kazak group.ConclusionOur research provides a unique prevalence rate of VHD in Xinjiang natural population. The result suggests that VHD are notably common in this population (9.65%) and increase with age. There exists significant difference of prevalence rate between ethnics. The main risk factors of VHD are age, hypertension and smoking. Valvular heart diseases should be regarded as a serious and growing public-health problem.

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Prevalence of rheumatic heart disease among school children in Ethiopia: A multisite echocardiography-based screening

Cited by 63 publications

References 11 publications

Echocardiographic screening of 4107 Nigerian school children for rheumatic heart disease

Echocardiographic screening of 4107 Nigerian school children for rheumatic heart disease

Spectrum of cardiovascular diseases in six main referral hospitals of Ethiopia

Prevalence of valvular heart diseases and associated risk factors in Han, Uygur and Kazak population in Xinjiang, China

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