RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE IN PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL CHILDREN

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Article1 June 1937RHEUMATIC HEART DISEASE IN PHILADELPHIA SCHOOL CHILDRENJACOB M. CAHAN, M.D., F.A.C.P.JACOB M. CAHAN, M.D., F.A.C.P.Author, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-10-12-1752 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptAbout 1 per cent of the 350,000 children in the public and parochial schools of Philadelphia†have some form of heart disease. The main causes of heart affection, as is well known, are congenital developmental defects, rheumatic fever and other infections, syphilis and degenerative changes. Of these causes, congenital defects and rheumatic infection, chiefly, pertain to children of school age, and rheumatic heart disease by itself constitutes by far the most frequent variety. The common age at the onset of rheumatic infection coincides with the years of the child's school attendance, namely, from five to eighteen. In fact, the child...Reference1. CAHAN JM: The incidence of heart disease in school children, Jr. Am. Med. Assoc., 1929, xcii, 1576. CrossrefGoogle Scholar This content is PDF only. To continue reading please click on the PDF icon. Author, Article, and Disclosure InformationAffiliations: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania*Received for publication August 12, 1936.†Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, is a city of over two million inhabitants, and has a temperate climate. North Philadelphia, the section in which the survey has been conducted is inhabited largely by families whose social condition is a little better than the average, although about one-fifth of them are poor.‡A blank form will be furnished with the reprint, on request PreviousarticleNextarticle Advertisement FiguresReferencesRelatedDetails Metrics Cited byDetection of Heart Disease in Children 1919-1967Use of Tape-Recorded Heart Sounds in Screening of Children for Heart DiseaseThe changing pattern of rheumatic heart diseaseExperience in secondary screening of cardiac suspects of school ageThe incidence of rheumatic heart disease in native school children of Dade County, FloridaHeart disease in San Francisco school childrenHeart disease in children in a rural iowa county—particularlyin relation to rheumatic feverIncidence of heart disease and rheumatic fever in school children in three climatically different california communitiesThe incidence of organic heart disease in school childrenIncidence and type of heart disease in San Francisco school children 1 June 1937Volume 10, Issue 12Page: 1752-1765KeywordsCardiovascular therapyChildrenCongenital disordersCongenital heart defectsEmotionsInfectious diseasesPediatric infectionsRheumatic feverSyphilis ePublished: 1 December 2008 Issue Published: 1 June 1937 PDF downloadLoading ...