Sentences with phrase «as rheumatic heart»
Indigenous Australians die from preventable diseases such as rheumatic heart disease, eradicated among the rest of the Australian population and they have lower access to primary health care and health infrastructure that the rest of Australia takes for granted.
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«Our studies suggest that excessive TNF drives heart valve — rather than heart muscle — diseases, and may be worth investigating for inflammatory diseases affecting the heart valves, such as rheumatic heart disease.»
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Today, most people in the United States rarely think of rheumatic heart disease (RHD)-- or the rheumatic fever that causes it — as more than a historical footnote.
Not only do they cause several million cases of strep throat every year, but also can lead to more severe infections, such as flesh - eating disease and acute rheumatic heart disease,» Kumaraswami said.
As part of that effort, rheumatologists and cardiologists established Mayo's Cardio - Rheumatology Clinic two years ago to pioneer new heart disease diagnostic, prevention and treatment tools for patients with rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatic diseases.
The risk tool could also benefit people with other inflammatory rheumatic diseases that carry higher heart disease risk, such as lupus and psoriatic arthritis.
Scientists have mapped the genome of a bacterium responsible for the heart - damaging illness known as acute rheumatic fever.
This reaction is known as rheumatic fever and can be deadly and often necessitates heart valve transplants.
These may include asking if you have been treated for, hospitalized for, diagnosed with, and / or prescribed medication for certain issues such as a heart disorder, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and / or rheumatic fever.
These may include asking if you have been treated for, hospitalized for, diagnosed with, and / or prescribed medication for certain issues such as a heart disorder, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and / or rheumatic fever.
Indigenous adolescents were about 40 times as likely as non-Indigenous adolescents to die from rheumatic heart disease.
As governments talk about «refreshing» targets, three experts — in diabetes, maternal and infant health care, and rheumatic heart disease — provide evidence for how giving more support, funding and control to the Indigenous community leads to actual results.
The reaction causes inflammation in heart valves (part of the condition known as rheumatic fever).
A critical aspect is to help communities take ownership of ways to target rheumatic heart disease as a condition requiring attention, provide leadership and training within health services, connect the health service with clients, families and communities, and engage other services outside of the health system.
The substantial continuing health and social inequalities faced by Indigenous Australians are increasingly well recognised and documented.1 The broad sociocultural influence on serious Indigenous health issues, such as diabetes and rheumatic heart disease, is also well recognised; poverty, lack of cultural security and a paucity of appropriate staff within health services for Indigenous people are evident contributors.2 - 4