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Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease and Other Cardiac Conditions in Low-Risk Pregnancies in Kenya: A Prospective Echocardiography Screening Study Cover

Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease and Other Cardiac Conditions in Low-Risk Pregnancies in Kenya: A Prospective Echocardiography Screening Study

Global Heart
Volume 16 (2021): Issue 1
By: John W. Snelgrove,  Joy Marsha Alera,  Michael C. Foster,  Kipchumba C. N. Bett,  Gerald S. Bloomfield,  Candice K. Silversides,  Felix A. Barasa,  Astrid Christoffersen-Deb,  Heather C. Millar,  Julie G. Thorne,  Rachel F. Spitzer,  Rajesh Vedanthan and  Nanette Okun  
Open Access
|Feb 2021

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.826 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
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Language: English
Submitted on: May 19, 2020
Accepted on: Jan 25, 2021
Published on: Feb 9, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 1 issue per year
Keywords:
rheumatic heart disease,
pregnancy,
echocardiography,
epidemiology,
Kenya,
Africa

© 2021 John W. Snelgrove, Joy Marsha Alera, Michael C. Foster, Kipchumba C. N. Bett, Gerald S. Bloomfield, Candice K. Silversides, Felix A. Barasa, Astrid Christoffersen-Deb, Heather C. Millar, Julie G. Thorne, Rachel F. Spitzer, Rajesh Vedanthan, Nanette Okun, published by Ubiquity Press
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