Large-scale community echocardiographic screening reveals a major burden of undiagnosed valvular heart disease in older people: The OxVALVE Population Cohort Study

European Heart Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 47, 2016, Pages 3515-3522a

  D'Arcy, Joanna L ^a   Coffey, Sean ^a   Loudon, Margaret A ^a   Kennedy, Andrew ^a   Pearson Stuttard, Jonathan ^a   Birks, Jacqueline ^a,b   Frangou, Eleni ^a,b   Farmer, Andrew J ^b   Mant, David ^b   Wilson, Jo ^a   Myerson, Saul G ^a   Prendergast, Bernard D ^a  

^a NIHR OXFORD BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Echocardiography; Epidemiology; Health policy and outcome research; Valvular heart disease

Indexed keywords

AGED; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; AORTA VALVE REGURGITATION; AORTA VALVE STENOSIS; ARTICLE; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; BICUSPID AORTIC VALVE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MITRAL VALVE REGURGITATION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; SOCIAL CLASS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRICUSPID VALVE REGURGITATION; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HUMANS;

EID: 85015939874     PISSN: 0195668X     EISSN: 15229645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehw229     Document Type: Article

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