Age-related Morphological Changes in Cardiac Valves
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چکیده
The mandate of quality health care includes improved neonatal survival, better maternal and neonatal health and an improved life expectancy, resulting in an increasingly older population with the largest growth in the 65+ age group. Therefore, there is a growing need for an improved awareness of age-related changes in the body in general and in the heart in particular. In addition to risk factors such as diabetes mellitus, abnormal lipid levels and hypertension,1 increasing age is a major independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. In a previous issue of Geriatrics & Aging, the age-related changes in the myocardium were highlighted.2 In this paper we review age-related cardiac valvular changes and briefly discuss their sequelae and treatment.
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