Global, Regional, and National Burden of Rheumatic Heart Disease, 1990–2015
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation · Groote Schuur Hospital · +16 more institutions
Abstract
Rheumatic heart disease remains an important preventable cause of cardiovascular death and disability, particularly in low-income and middle-income countries. We estimated global, regional, and national trends in the prevalence of and mortality due to rheumatic heart disease as part of the 2015 Global Burden of Disease study.
We systematically reviewed data on fatal and nonfatal rheumatic heart disease for the period from 1990 through 2015. Two Global Burden of Disease analytic tools, the Cause of Death Ensemble model and DisMod-MR 2.1, were used to produce estimates of mortality and prevalence, including estimates of uncertainty.
Citation impact
- FWCI
- 81.78
- Percentile
- 100%
- References
- 28
Authors
20- DWDavid WatkinsCorresponding
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Groote Schuur Hospital, General Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Cape Town
- COCatherine O. Johnson
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- SCSamantha Colquhoun
Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, University of Melbourne
- GKGanesan Karthikeyan
All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
- ABAndrea Beaton
Children's National, Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation
Topics & keywords
- Medicine
- Heart disease
- Burden of disease
- Disease
- Global health
- Disease burden
- Rheumatic disease
- Cause of death
- No poverty