ArticleFrontiers in public health2018
Valvular Heart Disease in a Young Israeli Ethiopian Immigrant Population From the Gondar Region With Implications for Rheumatic Heart Disease.
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- Rheumatic Fever in Large Cohort of Adolescents in Israel.Frontiers in medicine · 2019Article
- Health Challenges of the Pacific Region: Insights From History, Geography, Social Determinants, Genetics, and the Microbiome.Frontiers in immunology · 2019Review
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Abstract
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 aged 16-19 years from the northern district of Israel who completed the medical profiling process over a 22-year period.
results140 recruits had a history of rheumatic fever (0.12%), although none from an Ethiopian origin (
conclusionThe Ethiopian teenage Israeli population from Gondar had a high rate of auscultation positive and echocardiographically confirmed valvular disease that suggested a high rate of RHD (~1.6%), despite no relevant past history. Our findings also suggested that for the younger Ethiopian immigrants or Israeli born subjects of Ethiopian origin, the improved medical care may well reduce the prevalence of valvular heart disease to that of the rest of the local population.
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