Table 1. Type of acquired heart disease by age group.
| Heart diseases | Frequency (%) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-4 years | 5-9 years | 10-14 years | 15-18 years | Total | |
| Rheumatic heart disease | 1 (1.5) | 17 (26.2) | 32 (49.2) | 15 (23.1) | 65 (41.1) |
| Pericardial disease* | 3 | 10 | 12 | 15 | 40 (25.3) |
| Dilated cardiomyopathy | 4 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 25 (15.8) |
| Endomyocardial fibrosis | 0 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 22 (13.9) |
| Hypertensive heart disease | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 (1.9) |
| Cor pulmonale | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 (1.3) |
| Endocarditis | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 (1.9) |
| Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 (1.9) |
| NDCM | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 (1.9) |
| Total | 9 | 38 | 61 | 58 | 166 |
*, eight cases of pericardial disease were associated with other forms of AHD (3 EMF, 1 RHD, 3 DCM, 1 NDCM) which accounts for the excess. NDCM, Non-dilated cardiomyopathy; AHD, acquired heart diseases; EMF, endomyocardial fibrosis; RHD, rheumatic heart disease; DCM, dilated cardiomyopathy.