Prevalence and pattern of rheumatic valvular heart disease in Africa: Systematic review and meta-analysis, 2015–2023, population based studies

• Seid Mohammed Abdu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: seidmd041@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8775-8348

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• Altaseb Beyene Kassaw,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

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• Amare Abera Tareke,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

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• Gosa Mankelkl,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

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• Mekonnen Belete,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1983-7981

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• Mohammed Derso Bihonegn,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

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• Ahmed Juhar Temam,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

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• Gashaw Abebe,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

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• Ebrahim Msaye Assefa

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, Wollo University, Dessie, Ethiopia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3189-7258

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