Rheumatic Heart Disease in East Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Despite being a grave problem, there is little information on rheumatic heart disease's prevalence in East Africa. Therefore, the purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to estimate the pooled prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in East Africa.

Materials and methods

A computerized systematic search of using multiple database searching engines was performed in search of relevant English articles from the inception of the databases to December 2019. It was done in accordance with the preferred reporting items for systematic review and meta-analysis (PRISMA) standard. The funnel plot was used to assess publication bias. R and RStudio for Windows were used for all statistical analysis. The random-effect model was used for calculating the pooled estim

SUBMITTER: Mebrahtom G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10522432 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature