Community burden of aortic valve disease

The burden of aortic stenosis (AS) has been the subject of particular attention over the last decades due to growing evidence that, beyond its present impact in the elderly, AS is also likely to increase in the near future, with at least a predicted doubling of cases in the next 50 years.1 The analysis of the cumulative burden of AS performed by Owen et al 2 in the large cohort of elderly patients of the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS) is...