Craig Sable

TL;DR: CVD burden continues its decades-long rise for almost all countries outside high-income countries, and alarmingly, the age-standardized rate of CVD has begun to rise in some locations where it was previously declining in high- income countries.

TL;DR: It is anticipated that this summary will update a wide range of medical personnel about the genetic aspects of congenital heart disease and will encourage an interdisciplinary approach to the child and adult with congenitals heart disease.

TL;DR: The health‐related burden of rheumatic heart disease has declined worldwide, but high rates of disease persist in some of the poorest regions in the world.

TL;DR: This revision of the Jones criteria now brings them into closer alignment with other international guidelines for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever by defining high-risk populations, recognizing variability in clinical presentation in these high- risk populations, and including Doppler echocardiography as a tool to diagnose cardiac involvement.

TL;DR: The number of childhood cancer survivors is expected to increase as a result of the rising pediatric cancer incidence and improved long-term survival rates and the Childhood Cancer Survivor Study has improved the understanding of the long- term mortality and morbidity in this high-risk population.