Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Their Relation to Future Surgery for Valvular Heart Disease or Ascending Aortic Disease: A Case–Referent Study

Traditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Their Relation to Future Surgery for Valvular Heart Disease or Ascending Aortic Disease: A Case–Referent Study

BackgroundRisk factors for developing heart valve and ascending aortic disease are based mainly on retrospective data. To elucidate these factors in a prospective manner, we have performed a nested case–referent study using data from large, population‐based surveys. Methods and ResultsA total of 777...

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Main Authors: Johan Ljungberg, Bengt Johansson, Karl Gunnar Engström, Elin Albertsson, Paul Holmer, Margareta Norberg, Ingvar A. Bergdahl, Stefan Söderberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2017-05-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
aortic disease
aortic regurgitation
aortic stenosis
mitral regurgitation
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.116.005133

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