Research Article

Clinical Characteristics and Long-Term Prognosis of Elderly Valvular Heart Disease Patients with Diabetes Mellitus: Five-Year Experience from a Single-Center Study of Southern China

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Kaplan–Meier event-free survival curves for composite endpoints (all-cause mortality, ischemic stroke, and heart failure rehospitalization) in elderly VHD patients with diabetes vs. nondiabetes. MACCEs, major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events; VHD, valvular heart disease.