{"id":147,"date":"2020-08-05T02:24:09","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T02:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/?page_id=147"},"modified":"2023-09-27T14:03:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T14:03:38","slug":"active-living-survey","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/active-living-survey\/","title":{"rendered":"Heart Valve Patient Survey Reveals \u201cActive Living\u201d a Top Priority for Patients Seeking Treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the support of the wonderful patients and caregivers in our community, I am happy to share that results from our recent survey were just posted.<\/p>\n<p>So you know&#8230;\u00a0 Over 3,400 patients and caregivers responded to our survey in 7 days!\u00a0 Amazing!!!<\/p>\n<p>As you will see, the survey uncovered many real-world insights about the management and the treatment of heart valve disease from the patient perspective.\u00a0 The survey findings also helped us launch the &#8220;Active Living&#8221; Patient Awareness Campaign today!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/Images\/Active-Living-Heart-Valve-Patient-Survey-Results.jpg\" alt=\"Heart Valve Patient Survey Results\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>The &#8220;Active Living&#8221; Patient Awareness Campaign<\/h2>\n<p>The Active Living initiative comes at an important time when heart valve disease impacts more than 5 million Americans each year.\u00a0 This includes 1.5 million people with aortic stenosis.<\/p>\n<p>As many of you know, aortic stenosis is a very dangerous form of heart valve disease.\u00a0 Research shows that 50% of severe aortic stenosis patients will not survive more than two years after the onset of symptoms unless their valve is treated.\u00a0 Uggh!<\/p>\n<p>Despite the risks of aortic stenosis, the American Heart Association warns that the COVID-19 pandemic has put health care &#8220;on hold&#8221; for many patients leading to heart health emergencies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Select Survey Findings<\/h2>\n<p>Key findings from our survey are now available at a new educational microsite that I just posted.\u00a0 The microsite also provides patients educational resources about heart valve disease, a Physician Finder and helpful downloads &#8212; including a very neat &#8220;infographic&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the interesting survey findings include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>94% of survey respondents were patients<\/li>\n<li>49% of heart valve patients reported a &#8220;quick return to active living&#8221; as a key factor in their treatment option selection<\/li>\n<li>27% of patients wished they had treatment earlier<\/li>\n<li>80% of patients are &#8220;extremely satisfied&#8221; after heart valve surgery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep on tickin!<br \/>\nAdam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"cms.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"class_list":["post-147","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-aortic-valve-replacement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":52,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3836,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/147\/revisions\/3836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.heart-valve-surgery.com\/learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}