The Epidemiology of Valvular Heart Disease: a Growing Public Health Problem

Heart Failure Clinics

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 379-393

  Supino, Phyllis G ^a   Borer, Jeffrey S ^a   Preibisz, Jacek ^a   Bornstein, Abraham ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; MITRAL VALVE STENOSIS; MORTALITY; PREDICTION; REVIEW; SUDDEN DEATH; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; TRICUSPID VALVE STENOSIS; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 34247139786     PISSN: 15517136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hfc.2006.09.010     Document Type: Review

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