title: [Implications of some risk factors in degenerative valvular heart diseases].
abstract: A retrospective study on 223 patients diagnosed with degenerative heart valvular lesions: 124 women with an average of 74.9 years old and 99 men with an average of 70.1 years old with the lower limit under 50 years old (one woman and one man) and upper limit over 80 years old (22 women and 11 men) revealed that 109 patients (48.8%) had arterial hypertension, 30 patients (13.4%) had diabetes mellitus, and 16 patients (7%) had obesity. Chronic alcoholism was present at 89 patients (39.9%), chronic tobacco consumption at 54 patients (24.2%), cholesterol value over 200mg/dl in 99 patients (44%) and triglycerides value over 150 mg/dl in 15 patients (6.6%). In the 15 patients with a sever form of aortic stenosis was discovered cholesterol value over 200 mg/dl as well as chronic tobacco use and alcoholism.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Degenerative heart valvular disease represents a different process from arteriosclerosis, therefore the conventional risk factors of arteriosclerosis, can not be considered as having the same significance for degenerative heart diseases.
authors.affiliation: Universitatea de Medicină şi Farmacie Gr.T. Popa Iaşi, Facultatea de Medicină, Clinica a III-a Medicală Cardiologică Ion Enescu.
authors.forename: Simona Daniela
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Ionescu
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Sandru
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Artenie
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rezuş
authors.forename: Paloma
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Manea
authors.forename: Alina
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Burdujan
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hrustovici
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cosovanu
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000428:Alcohol Drinking / Q000009:adverse effects; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D048909:Diabetes Complications; D005260:Female; D006349:Heart Valve Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D006949:Hyperlipidemias / Q000150:complications; D006973:Hypertension / Q000150:complications; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects