Sentences with phrase «of rheumatic heart disease»
Australia Aboriginal people living in the Top End of the Northern Territory and the Kimberly regions experience among the highest incidence rates of rheumatic heart disease in the world.
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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.
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«Double danger: The peril of childbirth for women with rheumatic heart disease.»
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.
In the mid-1940s, the Department of Defense commissioned researchers, led by infectious disease scientist Charles Rammelkamp, to study whether treating strep with penicillin would also prevent rheumatic heart disease, then a serious problem among troops.
Dr. Thite is the President of the local chapter of an organization of Ayurvedic Physicians in India, has been practicing clinically for over 25 years, been a research assistant and has presented papers on Liver diseases, Rheumatic heart disease, Abdominal pain, Diseases of urinary system and diabetes and much more.
However, it's important to bear in mind that heart disease risk isn't limited to Ankylosing Spondylitis only; a vast majority of rheumatic diseases are linked with higher odds of cardiovascular diseases.
According to a government data, «The prevalence of heart failure in India due to coronary heart disease, hypertension, obesity, diabetes and rheumatic heart disease ranges from anywhere between 1.3 to 4.6 million, with an annual incidence of 491,600 to 1.8 million.»
Rates of diseases associated with poor environmental health (including water and food borne diseases, trachoma, tuberculosis and rheumatic heart disease)
Rheumatic heart disease is almost uniquely a disease of Aboriginal people in Australia.
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
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.