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Pakistan, India among 5 countries with highest rheumatic heart disease deaths
August 25, 2017
NEW YORK, Aug 25 (INP) With 1,38,000 deaths, Pakistan and India are among the five nations -- Indonesia, the DR Congo and China that accounted for 73 per cent of rheumatic heart disease deaths globally in 2015, a study has showed. The death toll in the other four nations stood at 1.18 million in Indonesia, 8,05,000 in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1,19,100 in India, 72,600 in China and 18,900 in Pakistan. Rheumatic heart disease is a condition of damaged heart valves caused by bacterial infection that leads to rheumatic fever. INP/AH/LK
