More Than a Quarter of ‘Healthy’ Older Adults Have Asymptomatic Heart Valve Disease: New Study

Most cases were mild and primarily affected older adults over 75 years old.
More Than a Quarter of ‘Healthy’ Older Adults Have Asymptomatic Heart Valve Disease: New Study
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Over 25 percent of seemingly healthy adults over 60 were found to have heart valve disease despite not having symptoms, according to a new study.

“Our findings showed that more than 28pc (percent) of these adults had some form of heart valve disease, although reassuringly it was only mild in the majority of the cases,” Vassilios Vassiliou, a professor of cardiac medicine at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom and co-author of the study, said in a news release.

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