Diagnosis and Knowledge of the Impact of Rheumatic Heart Disease on Iraqi Adults and Adolescents

Background: RHD presents as the major factor who acquired valvular heart disease for adults and adolescents. Almost of children with RHD they had got of complications of the disease. Aim: This paper aims to Diagnosis and gain knowledge of the impact of rheumatic heart disease on Iraqi adults and adolescents. Patients and method: This study was conducted in different hospitals in Iraq from 5^th July 2021- 8^th October 2022 as a cross-sectional to diagnosis and knowledge of the impact of rheumatic heart disease on Iraqi adults and adolescents. This study was collected data from databases of 50 cases with RHD for children who Over 11 years old. This study was analysed and designed databases outcomes by the SPSS program. Results and discussion: Mitral valve involvement was found to be the most prevalent in both children, followed by aortic and pulmonary valve involvement. Our results indicated that the mitral valve was the most prevalent in children, which included (17) 34%, followed by the bilateral valve, which appeared on the formation of aortic regurgitation (11) 22%. Conclusion: In summary, our results found that the Mitral valve was the most predominant lesion who effect on the children then, followed by Aortic regurgitations. As a result, aortic and pulmonary valves are involved in the commonly advanced stage of the disease. Also, On the contrary, our study found a preponderance of girls over boys, where boys occupied (62%) and females (38%). Furthermore, malnourished people are at a greater risk of mortality than those with appropriate nutritional conditions