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Echocardiographic screening for rheumatic heart disease combined with secondary prophylaxis may potentially prevent severe rheumatic heart disease in high-risk populations. We aimed to determine the prevalence of rheumatic heart disease in children from an urban New Zealand population at high risk for acute rheumatic fever.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1047951111000266_abs2\" sec-type=\"general\"><jats:title>Methods and results<\/jats:title><jats:p>To optimise accurate diagnosis of rheumatic heart disease, we utilised a two-step model. Portable echocardiography was conducted on 1142 predominantly M\u0101ori and Pacific children aged 10\u201313 years. Children with an abnormal screening echocardiogram underwent clinical assessment by a paediatric cardiologist together with hospital-based echocardiography. Rheumatic heart disease was then classified as<jats:italic>definite, probable<\/jats:italic>, or<jats:italic>possible<\/jats:italic>. Portable echocardiography identified changes suggestive of rheumatic heart disease in 95 (8.3%) of 1142 children, which reduced to 59 (5.2%) after cardiology assessment. The prevalence of<jats:italic>definite<\/jats:italic>and<jats:italic>probable<\/jats:italic>rheumatic heart disease was 26.0 of 1000, with 95% confidence intervals ranging from 12.6 to 39.4. Portable echocardiography overdiagnosed rheumatic heart disease with physiological valve regurgitation diagnosed in 28 children. A total of 30 children (2.6%) had non-rheumatic cardiac abnormalities, 11 of whom had minor congenital mitral valve anomalies.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S1047951111000266_abs3\" sec-type=\"conclusion\"><jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title><jats:p>We found high rates of undetected rheumatic heart disease in this high-risk population. Rheumatic heart disease screening has resource implications with cardiology evaluation required for accurate diagnosis. 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