Prevalence of rheumatic fever/rheumatic heart disease among school children of age group 5-15 years in district Jammu
Journal Title: Indian Journal of Forensic and Community Medicine - Year 2018, Vol 5, Issue 2
Abstract
Introduction Rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease are major cause of valvular heart disease in the world It is estimated that up to 156 million people worldwide are affected by rheumatic heart disease and every year approximately 470000 new cases are detected and 233000 deaths are attributed to rheumatic heart diseaseObjective A study was conducted by department of Community medicine Government Medical College Jammu JK to assess the prevalence of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease among school children in age group of 515 years in Jammu districtMaterials and Methods A cross sectional study involving the screening of school children drawn from schools of Jammu district as a part of a research project of ICMR under Jai Vigyan Mission Mode JVMM Participants included ten thousand students of schools of Jammu district in ten age slots in age group of 515years each having 1000 childrenSetting The schools were selected by stratified systematic random sampling technique such that half of children 5000 belonged to rural schools and half 5000 to urban schools with equal sex distribution as well as equal government private distributionStudy Period May 2007 to March 2010Results Prevalence of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease were found to be respectively 071000 and 06 1000 school children in age group 515 yearsConclusion Keeping in view these results the burden of rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease on the public health system for chemoprophylaxis and surgery cannot be ignored Hence although on a decline but still rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease remain a public health problem for the young populations aged 0515 years in this part of countryKeywords Rheumatic fever Rheumatic heart disease Children 515 years Jammu
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DS Jamwal, Rakesh Bahl, Rayaz Jan, Mohan Lal, Bhupinder Singh
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