Sex difference in the burden of rheumatic heart disease: Insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

• Shushu Jiang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Clinic Center of Human Gene Research, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of Metabolic Abnormalities and Vascular Aging Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  https://orcid.org/0009-0003-1541-7888

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• Jiakai Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Xinxiang Medical University, Third Clinical College of Xinxiang Medical University, Xinxiang, China

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• Menghao Shi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Clinic Center of Human Gene Research, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of Metabolic Abnormalities and Vascular Aging Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Hubei clinical research center for metabolic and cardiovascular disease, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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• Yin Dong,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Clinic Center of Human Gene Research, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of Metabolic Abnormalities and Vascular Aging Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Hubei clinical research center for metabolic and cardiovascular disease, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Cardiovascular Center, Liyuan Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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• Zhaohui Wang ,

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cwangunion@hust.edu.cn (CW); wuxiaohongtian@163.com (ZW)

  Affiliations Department of Cardiology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Clinic Center of Human Gene Research, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of Metabolic Abnormalities and Vascular Aging Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Hubei clinical research center for metabolic and cardiovascular disease, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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• Cheng Wang

  Roles Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: cwangunion@hust.edu.cn (CW); wuxiaohongtian@163.com (ZW)

  Affiliations Clinic Center of Human Gene Research, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Hubei Key Laboratory of Metabolic Abnormalities and Vascular Aging Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Hubei clinical research center for metabolic and cardiovascular disease, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, Union Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7185-2671

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