Key result
Etiological profiles of valvular heart disease have shifted, with mitral valve prolapse and senile calcific aortic stenosis emerging as the most common forms in developed countries.
Design
Review
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Alerts clinicians to degenerative VHD predominance in developed regions; extends epidemiological mapping of etiology transitions.
Highlights the epidemiological shift in valvular heart disease etiology towards degenerative and nonrheumatic causes in developed nations.
Alan G. Rose (1996) conducted a review in Valvular heart disease. Etiological factors was evaluated. Etiological profiles of valvular heart disease have shifted, with mitral valve prolapse and senile calcific aortic stenosis emerging as the most common forms in developed countries.
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