Early screening is the best way to identify heart valve disease, which affects almost 12 million people in the US. When one of the most common forms of heart valve disease—aortic stenosis—becomes severe, it's called heart valve failure. Without treatment, it can be deadly. That’s why Edwards Lifesciences and the LA Rams have teamed up to get more people ages 50+ in the game by signing up for a free heart valve screening.
EDWARDS LIFESCIENCES AND THE LA RAMS
Have teamed up to make screening for heart valve disease a priority
FOR PEOPLE AGES 50 AND OLDER.
When your heart valve health sits on the sidelines, things can get deadly. With over 25K deaths each year, early screening is a simple way to detect heart valve disease before it gets worse.
It’s our mission to put valve health in play for everyone
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Heart valve failure is a deadly opponent.
Your personal stats can help determine your risk.
Identifying heart valve failure can be the difference between life and death for you, your loved ones, and those in your community. While there isn’t one single cause of heart valve failure, there are plenty of common risk factors, including:
Older age can mean you are at higher risk
Family history of heart disease or heart valve disease
Personal medical history
High blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and other heart disease risk factors
Chronic kidney disease (renal failure)
Heart conditions or heart infections
Heart conditions since birth (congenital heart disease)
Race? Gender? Age? Heart valve disease doesn't care.
Nearly half of all adults in the US have some sort of cardiovascular (heart) disease.
Heart valve disease affects 11.9 million people in the US, enough to fill every NFL stadium in America FIVE TIMES.
Black Americans may be at increased risk for earlier onset of heart valve disease.
Women with heart valve failure tend to show more symptoms than men yet are diagnosed at later ages.
Hispanic Americans have higher rates of well-established risk factors for heart disease (like high blood pressure and obesity) than other groups.
Women are 7 times more likely to die of heart disease than breast cancer.
From the time symptoms start, up to 50% of people with heart valve failure may die within 2 years without treatment.
Get to know the symptoms of heart valve failure to help you beat the odds.
- Lightheaded, faint, or dizzy feelings
- Irregular heartbeat, heart flutter, or chest pain
- Shortness of breath after activity or while lying down
- Tiredness, even if you’ve had plenty of sleep
- Edema (swelling of the ankles and feet)
- Not feeling like yourself (missing out on daily activities)
Get a good read on your heart valve health with an echocardiogram.
Heart valve failure will get worse over time if the symptoms are mistaken for normal signs of aging. That’s why it’s so important to discover it early by asking your cardiologist for an echocardiogram (or heart ultrasound) if you're 50 or older. It's one of the best ways to tell if you or a loved one has heart valve failure.
Echocardiograms are:
Pain-free
Helpful with detection
Over in as little as 20 minutes
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Early detection and treatment for heart valve failure can save lives.
If you or a loved one is diagnosed with heart valve failure, don’t wait. Treatments are available—open heart surgery isn’t the only option.
For more information, visit ScreenHeartValveDisease.com
Join Edwards Lifesciences and the LA Rams in our mission to get heart valve health OFF THE SIDELINES and get more people from the 50+ community screened for heart valve disease and heart valve failure.