Valvular Heart Disease in a Young Israeli Ethiopian Immigrant Population From the Gondar Region With Implications for Rheumatic Heart Disease

• Main Authors: Daniel Lyon Fink (Author), Yoram Chaiter (Author), Samuel Menahem (Author), Rivka Farkash (Author), Yossy Machluf (Author)
• Format: Knjiga
• Izdano: Frontiers Media S.A., 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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BackgroundRheumatic heart disease (RHD) among Ethiopian school children was recently found to be 1.4%. Immigration of the Jewish population from the Gondar region to Israel created an opportunity for further enquiry.MethodsA cross-sectional study of the cardiac status of 113,671 adolescent recruits...