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Disturbing evidence of higher mortality and lower surgery rates in women versus men with mitral valve prolapse and severe leakage may be related to the complexity of evaluating the condition’s severity in women, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic study published this month in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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