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U.S. Markets for Heart Valve Disorder Management Products, November 2014
In the United States (U.S.), an estimated 83.6 million adults have at least one type of cardiovascular disease (CVD), a broad group of disorders that affect the heart and circulatory system. Cardiovascular disease in all its forms accounts for more deaths than any other major cause in the U.S., including cancer, with one of every three deaths in the country due to CVD and nearly 2,150 people dying from the disease each day (or an average of one death from CVD every 40 seconds).
Heart valve disease, at its most rudimentary level, is the malfunctioning of the heart's valves can result from incomplete (inadequate) opening or close. In some cases, insufficiency and narrowing of the heart valve can occur at the same time. This occurs when the leaflets of the heart valve become shrunken and stiff while the valve is fixed in a half-open position. Based on available statistical data, approximately 4 million people in the U.S. are diagnosed with valvular heart disease annually—translating to an estimated prevalence of over 20 million.