{"id":42585,"date":"2025-08-21T13:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/?p=42585"},"modified":"2025-08-21T13:27:31","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T18:27:31","slug":"annual-deaths-disease-estimate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/2025\/08\/21\/annual-deaths-disease-estimate\/","title":{"rendered":"True or False: Heart Valve Disease Kills 60,000 People Annually In The United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Research from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.agingresearch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Silver-Book-Valve-Disease-VOLUME-Final.pdf\">Silver Book: Heart Valve Disease<\/a> previously suggested that up to 25,000 people die annually from heart valve disease in the United States.\u00a0 However, new research from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heart.org\/en\">American Heart Association (AHA)<\/a> suggests that prior estimate may be significantly understated.\u00a0 Is it true the AHA now believes that 60,000 people die each year from valvular defects including aortic stenosis and mitral regurgitation?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.heart.org\/news\/early-detection-and-treatment-can-lessen-the-impact-of-heart-valve-disease\">Get the answer here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/newsroom.heart.org\/news\/early-detection-and-treatment-can-lessen-the-impact-of-heart-valve-disease\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-42586\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/..\/Images\/aha-annual-deaths-heart-valve-disease.jpg\" alt=\"Annual Deaths From Heart Valve Disease\" width=\"600\" height=\"358\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of whether you got the question right or wrong, this is another great reminder to all the patients in our community to appropriately manage and monitor your specific type of heart valve disease.<\/p>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adams-updates"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42585"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42589,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42585\/revisions\/42589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/heart-surgery-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}