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Editorial
. 2018 Feb 3;7(3):e008385.
doi: 10.1161/JAHA.117.008385.

Health Behaviors and Calcific Aortic Valve Disease

Julio A Lamprea-Montealegre  1 , Catherine M Otto  2
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Editorial

Health Behaviors and Calcific Aortic Valve Disease

Julio A Lamprea-Montealegre et al. J Am Heart Assoc. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; aortic valve stenosis; health behaviours; risk factors.

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Conceptual framework for prevention of calcific aortic valve disease (CAVD). The current approach to treatment of CAVD is valve replacement for end‐stage disease (severe aortic stenosis). Although there is ongoing basic and clinical research into targeted therapies of proximal risk factors that might prevent disease progression, none have been shown to be effective to date. In addition to these ongoing research efforts, more attention should be focused on public policies to increase health behaviors at the population level and to improve healthcare delivery of known primary cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention strategies.
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