High Accuracy of School-Based Cardiovascular Screening System in Kagoshima City

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  • Kawamura Junpei
    Committee on the School-Based ECG Screening Program of Kagoshima City Department of Pediatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
  • Nomura Yuichi
    Committee on the School-Based ECG Screening Program of Kagoshima City Department of Pediatrics, Kagoshima City Hospital
  • Shiokawa Naohiro
    Committee on the School-Based ECG Screening Program of Kagoshima City Department of Pediatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
  • Hazeki Daisuke
    Committee on the School-Based ECG Screening Program of Kagoshima City Department of Pediatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
  • Ueno Kentaro
    Committee on the School-Based ECG Screening Program of Kagoshima City Department of Pediatrics, Kagoshima University Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences
  • Tanaka Yuji
    Committee on the School-Based ECG Screening Program of Kagoshima City National Hospital Organization Kagoshima Medical Center
  • Masuda Kiminori
    Committee on the School-Based ECG Screening Program of Kagoshima City Department of Pediatrics, Kagoshima City Hospital
  • Nishibatake Makoto
    Committee on the School-Based ECG Screening Program of Kagoshima City Department of Pediatrics, Kagoshima Seikyo Hospital
  • Yoshinaga Masao
    Committee on the School-Based ECG Screening Program of Kagoshima City National Hospital Organization Kagoshima Medical Center

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  • 鹿児島市学校心臓検診スクリーニングシステム精度の検討

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<p>Background: A school-based cardiovascular (CV) screening in Kagoshima City is characterized by a group discussion system. Pediatric cardiologists discuss whether electrocardiograms (ECGs), screened by a cardiologist, should be referred for the second examination. Here, we examined the accuracy of the screening system in Kagoshima City.</p><p>Methods: Subjects comprised 67,723 elementary and junior high school students who underwent the screening between 1989 and 2018. In Kagoshima City, the standard 12-lead ECG recording at the first screening was started in 1994, and the group discussion system was introduced in 2001. We analyzed the rate of the first ECG screening, the rate of patients with CV diseases through the screening, and the rate of patients with CV diseases, including those already diagnosed (total prevalence).</p><p>Results: The rate of the first screening after the group discussion system (1.5％ [1.2–2.2％] (median [range])) was significantly lower than that before the system (2.4％ [1.9–3.0％]). The CV disease rate through the screening between 2001 and 2018 was significantly higher than that between 1994 and 2000 (43％ [33–50％] vs. 28％ [26–35％]). The total CV disease rate was 0.60％ [0.50–0.85％].</p><p>Conclusions: The accuracy of the screening system in Kagoshima City was sufficiently high because the total CV disease rate was similar to that of the national average (0.9％), although the first screening rate was lower than that of the national average (3.0％). The group discussion system might support this high accuracy in addition to the use of 12-lead ECGs.</p>

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