Rheumatic Heart Disease in Kerala: A Vanishing Entity? An Echo Doppler Study in 5–15-Years-Old School Children

Table 4

Epidemiological studies of rheumatic heart disease in school children of different regions of India.

Study	Publication year	Region	Age	Sample size	Prevalence of RHD (per 1000 children)
Jose and Gomathi [24]	2003	Vellore	6–18 years	229829	0.68
Periwal et al. [25]	2006	Bikaner	5–14 years	3292	0.67
Misra et al. [26]	2007	Gorakhpur	4–18 years	118212	0.5
Negi et al. [27]	2013	Shimla (rural and urban)	5–15 years	15145	0.59