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Forest plots illustrating risk predictors of rheumatic heart disease progression to fatal/non-fatal composite outcome (primary outcome); and secondary outcomes of cardiovascular/surgical composite outcome; surgical intervention or heart failure in the study cohorts. Hazard ratios and 95% confidence intervals are reported for multivariate analyses, univariate analyses are provided in Supplementary material online, Item S6.
