_____________________________________________________________________________________________________ ≡ Director; *Corresponding author: Email: santu2002@gmail.com; Asian Journal of Pediatric Research 8(4): 1-8, 2022; Article no.AJPR.84678 ISSN: 2582-2950 Prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease among Children in Bangladesh Santosh Kumar Saha a* , Kastury Modak b , Kazal Kanti Dan c , Syed Nasir Uddin d , Mohammad Abdullah Al Mamun e and Kamrun Nahar Choudhury f≡ a Department of Pediatric Cardiology, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. b Department of Public Health, North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. c Department of Cardiology, Jashore Medical College, Jashore, Bangladesh. d Department of Cardiology, National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases and Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. e Department of Epidemiology and Research, National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh. f National Center for Control of Rheumatic Fever & Heart Disease, Dhaka, Bangladesh. Authors’ contributions This work was carried out in collaboration among all authors. All authors read and approved the final manuscript. Article Information DOI: 10.9734/AJPR/2022/v8i430248 Open Peer Review History: This journal follows the Advanced Open Peer Review policy. Identity of the Reviewers, Editor(s) and additional Reviewers, peer review comments, different versions of the manuscript, comments of the editors, etc are available here: https://www.sdiarticle5.com/review-history/84678 Received 25 January 2022 Accepted 04 April 2022 Published 11 April 2022 ABSTRACT Aims: The prevalence of Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD) is estimated to be higher in developing countries like Bangladesh than in developed countries, ranging from 24/1,000 to 0.3/1,000 respectively. There is no authentic national data since 2005 on prevalence of RHD in our country. Aim of this study is to find out present status of RHD among children in Bangladesh so that government can take further action to strengthen RHD prevention activity. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of children aged 5–15 years from 20 schools of urban non slum, urban slum and rural area was carried out by a team of cardiologists. Children were screened by clinical examination and diagnosis confirmed by echocardiography. Children who were not willing to enroll in the study and absent students at the day of data collection were excluded from the study. Original Research Article