Mitral Valve Prolapse in Blacks
Year: 1982
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: To determine the prevalence and characteristics of mitral valve prolapse in blacks, a population-based sample of 100 black residents of Framingham, Massachusetts, and a series of 15 black patients who had mitral prolapse diagnosed at a tertiary care referral center in New York were studied by uniform echocardiographic and clinical methods. It was found (1) that evidence of mitral valve prolapse occurs in 17 percent of blacks, which is comparable to the highest prevalence estimates in whites; (2) that, as with whites, blacks with evidence of mitral prolapse tended to be young women; and (3) that the high prevalence and variable spectrum of mitral prolapse punctuate the importance of identifying the presumably small but significant subgroup(s) susceptible to the condition's known complications.
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: Daniel D. Savage, Richard B. Devereux, Richard P. Donahue, Geraldine Joiner, Sandra J. Anderson, Robert A. Rosen, Peter Wilson, R J Kramer, W. Ted Brown, Robert D. Garrison, William P. Castelli, Manning Feinleib
Language: English
Subfield: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W259232688