Table 1.

Summary statistics from the Echo in Africa project (2014–2018)

	n = 5225
Characteristics
Mean age (SD)	15.0 (2.0)
Female gender, n (%)	3439 (65.8)
Prevalence of WHF RHD [weighted no. of cases/1000 (95% CI)]
WHF ‘definite RHD’	9.1 (6.8–12.1)
WHF ‘borderline RHD’	19.5 (16.0–23.7)
Total WHF RHD	28.6 (24.3–33.5)

CI, confidence interval; RHD, rheumatic heart disease; SD, standard deviation; WHF, World Heart Federation.