Mitral annulus motion as a predictor of mortality in a community-based sample of 75-year-old men and women

• Mitral annulus motion (MAM) is a predictor of mortality in selected patient groups, but its prognostic value in less selected populations is not known. In a community-based random sample of 75-year-old men and women (n = 408), left ventricular function was measured as: (1) maximum amplitude of MAM; and (2) wall-motion index. During a median follow-up of 7.2 years, 83 persons died (26 from cardiac causes). Left ventricular function as measured by MAM predicted the risk of all-cause and cardiac mortality independently of other potential risk factors in this community-based sample. Regarding cardiac mortality, the predictive ability of MAM was also independent of left ventricular systolic function measured as wall-motion index. MAM may prove to be a valuable complement to other echocardiographic methods in the assessment of prognosis in less selected populations.

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aged

article

community care

controlled study

echocardiography

female

follow up

heart left ventricle function

human

major clinical study

male

mitral valve

mortality

population

prognosis

risk factor

systole

Comorbidity

Heart Valve Diseases

Humans

Incidence

Movement

Risk Assessment

Risk Factors

Sex Distribution

Survival Analysis

Survival Rate

Sweden

Ventricular Dysfunction

Left

MEDICINE

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