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Editorial
. 2025 Jan 21;14(2):e039349.
doi: 10.1161/JAHA.124.039349. Epub 2025 Jan 16.

Call to Action: Reducing Disparities in Valvular Heart Disease

Christiane Haeffele  1 , Fatima Rodriguez  1
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Editorial

Call to Action: Reducing Disparities in Valvular Heart Disease

Christiane Haeffele et al. J Am Heart Assoc. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Editorials; echocardiography; quality; racial disparities; valvular heart disease.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr Haeffele reports consulting fees from Laza Medical and Edwards Lifesciences outside the submitted work. Dr Rodriguez was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL168188; R01HL167974; R01HL169345), the American Heart Association/Harold Amos Medical Faculty Development program, and the Doris Duke Foundation (Grant #2022051). Dr Rodriguez reports consulting fees from HealthPals, Novartis, NovoNordisk, Esperion Therapeutics, Movano Health, Kento Health, Inclusive Health, Edwards, Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, HeartFlow, and iRhythm outside the submitted work.

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