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Mitral valve prolapse in the general population

the benign nature of echocardiographic features in the Framingham Heart Study

Lisa A. Freed, MD, FACC^*, Emelia J. Benjamin, MD, ScM, FACC^*||, Daniel Levy, MD, FACC^*||¶#, Martin G. Larson, ScD^*||, Jane C. Evans, DSc^*||, Deborah L. Fuller, RDCS^*, Birgitta Lehman, RDCS^* and Robert A. Levine, MD, FACC^,*

^* National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Framingham Heart Study, Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
Cardiac Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Cardiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
^|| Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
^¶ National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
^# Divisions of Cardiology and Clinical Epidemiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

View larger version (35K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 The distribution of mitral regurgitation severity among the subjects in the study. MVP = mitral valve prolapse.