Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease

JR Carapetis, A Beaton, MW Cunningham… - Nature reviews Disease …, 2016 - nature.com
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is the result of an autoimmune response to pharyngitis caused
by infection with group A Streptococcus. The long-term damage to cardiac valves caused by …

Heart disease and stroke statistics—2014 update: a report from the American Heart Association

AS Go, D Mozaffarian, VL Roger, EJ Benjamin… - circulation, 2014 - Am Heart Assoc
Summary Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and other government …

Heart disease and stroke statistics—2015 update: a report from the American Heart Association

D Mozaffarian, EJ Benjamin, AS Go, DK Arnett… - circulation, 2015 - Am Heart Assoc
Summary Each year, the American Heart Association (AHA), in conjunction with the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health, and other government …

Disease manifestations and pathogenic mechanisms of group A Streptococcus

MJ Walker, TC Barnett, JD McArthur… - Clinical microbiology …, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Streptococcus pyogenes, also known as group A Streptococcus (GAS), causes mild human
infections such as pharyngitis and impetigo and serious infections such as necrotizing …

Genome-wide association and HLA region fine-mapping studies identify susceptibility loci for multiple common infections

C Tian, BS Hromatka, AK Kiefer, N Eriksson… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Infectious diseases have a profound impact on our health and many studies suggest that
host genetics play a major role in the pathogenesis of most of them. We perform 23 genome …

[HTML][HTML] Cardiovascular disease in Africa: epidemiological profile and challenges

AK Keates, AO Mocumbi, M Ntsekhe, K Sliwa… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
From a global perspective, the large and diverse African population is disproportionately
affected by cardiovascular disease (CVD). The historical balance between communicable …

[图书][B] Global atlas on cardiovascular disease prevention and control

S Mendis, P Puska, B Norrving… - 2011 - apps.who.int
Figure 59. Electrocardiogram; atrial fibrillation compared with normal sinus rhythm. Atrial
fibrillation (top) and normal sinus rhythm (bottom). The purple arrow indicates a P wave …

Preventing heart failure: a position paper of the Heart Failure Association in collaboration with the European Association of Preventive Cardiology

MF Piepoli, M Adamo, A Barison… - European journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The heart failure epidemic is growing and its prevention, in order to reduce associated
hospital readmission rates and its clinical and economic burden, is a key issue in modern …

[图书][B] Global atlas on cardiovascular disease prevention and control: published by the World Health Organization in collaboration with the World Heart Federation and …

World Health Organization - 2011 - apps.who.int
Figure 59. Electrocardiogram; atrial fibrillation compared with normal sinus rhythm. Atrial
fibrillation (top) and normal sinus rhythm (bottom). The purple arrow indicates a P wave …

Acute rheumatic fever

G Karthikeyan, L Guilherme - The Lancet, 2018 - thelancet.com
Acute rheumatic fever is caused by an autoimmune response to throat infection with
Streptococcus pyogenes. Cardiac involvement during acute rheumatic fever can result in …