We may be identifying non-disease if we are identifying children with cholesterol over the 95 th percentile. This is a picture, a graphic of the cholesterol molecule. I told you earlier that I was not a virologist. I m also not a biochemist. Cholesterol is a risk factor and this is an adult cardiology slide, but what this demonstrates is that serum cholesterol across the Rheumatic fever is not of great clinical importance in 2000.
Rheumatic fever is an acute non- suppurative sequelae.
It is a condition, which is a sequelae of group A beta- hemolytic streptococcal throat infections. Rheumatic fever results from a combination of factors. A certain host of a genetic predisposition in childhood, most commonly a female, most commonly African-American and often of poor nutritional state. When she lives in a temperate climate, usually in an urban area, often under conditions of crowding and in the wintertime. When that person, under those conditions, encounters the Subcutaneous nodules and erythema marginatum.