New Guidelines Released for Patients Suffering from Heart Disease

With Heart diseases and cardio problems on the rise have brought the world to stand and take notice. New guidelines are being proposed to save the future generations . The American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) have released practical guidelines and pays attention to valvular heart disease.

Valve disease most often strikes the mitral valve, which controls blood flow between the left atrium and the left ventricle, or the aortic valve (most prevalent type), which controls blood flow between the left ventricle and the aorta, the large artery that supplies blood to the rest of the body. Valvular heart disease caused about 20,000 deaths in 2003. The total mentioned mortality (i.e., underlying or contributing number of deaths) is about 42,500. There were 95,000 first-listed hospital discharges in 2003 for valvular heart disease. An estimated 95,000 inpatient valve procedures were performed in the United States in 2003.

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