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

• Main Authors: Tom Parks (Author), Joseph Kado (Author), Anne E Miller (Author), Brenton Ward (Author), Rachel Heenan (Author), Samantha M Colquhoun (Author), Till W Bärnighausen (Author), Mariana Mirabel (Author), David E Bloom (Author), Robin L Bailey (Author), Isimeli N Tukana (Author), Andrew C Steer (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
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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 records...