Population-based assessment of cardiovascular complications of rheumatic heart disease in Fiji: a record-linkage analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine population-based rates of non-fatal complications of rheumatic heart disease (RHD).

Design

Retrospective cohort study based on multiple sources of routine clinical and administrative data amalgamated by probabilistic record-linkage.

Setting

Fiji, an upper-middle-income country, where most of the population has access to government-funded healthcare services.

Participants

National cohort of 2116 patients with clinically apparent RHD aged 5-69 years during 2008 and 2012.

Primary and secondary outcome measures

The primary outcome was hospitalisation for any of heart failure, atrial fibrillation, ischaemic stroke and infective endocarditis. Secondary outcomes were first hospitalisation for each of the complications individually in the

SUBMITTER: Parks T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10152053 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature