Research Article
Rheumatic Heart Disease in Kerala: A Vanishing Entity? An Echo Doppler Study in 5–15-Years-Old School Children
Table 1
Baseline characteristics of the study population.
| | Characteristics | |
| | Age | | | Male, (%) | 1335 (64.8%) | | Height, mean SD | | | Weight, mean SD | | | Body mass index, mean SD | | | Systolic blood pressure, mean SD | | | Diastolic blood pressure, mean SD | | | Number of family members, mean SD | | | Number of rooms, mean SD | | | Kutcha type of housing, (%) | 457 (22.2%) | | Low socioeconomic status, (%) | 1002 (48.6%) |
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