Death rates from rheumatic heart disease falling since 1990

(Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation) The risk of dying from rheumatic heart disease, a condition of damaged heart valves caused by bacterial infection that leads to rheumatic fever, has dropped around the world over the last 25 years, according to a new scientific study published today in The New England Journal of Medicine.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news