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NEW ORLEANS -- Almost 12% of Americans aged 75 years or older have valvular heart disease, according to echocardiographic findings from an unselected population of 1,745 people.
The prevalence of valvular heart disease was also high (7.8%) in an unselected group of 3,879 Americans aged 65-74 years, Vuyisile T. Nkomo, M.D., reported in a poster at the annual scientific sessions of the American Heart Association.
This high prevalence of valvular heart disease in the elderly subjects, many of whom were probably asymptomatic, suggests that...
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