In Europe, incidences of severe native valvular heart disease (VHD) and their treatment vary between men and women. This is the key finding of a comprehensive study conducted at more than 200 ...

Cardiovascular disease, sometimes abbreviated as CVD, is the leading cause of death worldwide. It’s a catchall term for heart ...

Heart disease is a type of cardiovascular disease that affects the heart’s structure and function. Several different heart ...

As Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week comes to an end, specialists have been spreading awareness of the disease that affects more than one million Canadians. Heart valve disease is common and ...

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in around 50 percent of patients this is associated with coronary artery disease (i.e., blockages in the arteries of the heart) but can also be associated with valve problems, diseases of the heart ...

The prevalence of PH was 12.8% in those hospitalized in 2018 with left heart disease, a lower percentage than found in previous research.

Cardiac researchers at Intermountain Health have received a $2.4 million, four-year federal grant from the National ...

Citation: Women with severe native valvular heart disease less likely to be treated in accordance with guidelines than men (2024, September 25) retrieved 15 October 2024 from https://medicalxpress ...

Exercise Doppler echocardiography is useful in patients with valvular heart diseases allowing the evaluation of symptoms and exercise capacity and the assessment of the hemodynamic consequences of ...