TY - JOUR
T1 - The Decline of Rheumatic Fever
T2 - What Impact on Our Management of Pharyngitis?
AU - Shulman, Stanford T.
PY - 1984/5
Y1 - 1984/5
N2 - Rheumatic fever—from 1925-1950—ranked first as cause of death in American children and adolescents five to nineteen years of age. It was the leading cause of heart disease below the age of forty…. In the late twenties, Alvin Coburn found that in one New York City hospital one-fourth of the beds were occupied by patients with active rheumatic fever or its aftermath during the spring, the peak season for the disease. T. E. Cone, Jr.
AB - Rheumatic fever—from 1925-1950—ranked first as cause of death in American children and adolescents five to nineteen years of age. It was the leading cause of heart disease below the age of forty…. In the late twenties, Alvin Coburn found that in one New York City hospital one-fourth of the beds were occupied by patients with active rheumatic fever or its aftermath during the spring, the peak season for the disease. T. E. Cone, Jr.
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U2 - 10.1001/archpedi.1984.02140430004002
DO - 10.1001/archpedi.1984.02140430004002
M3 - Article
C2 - 6711497
AN - SCOPUS:0021433094
SN - 0002-922X
VL - 138
SP - 426
EP - 427
JO - American Journal of Diseases of Children
JF - American Journal of Diseases of Children
IS - 5
ER -