Coisne A, Montaigne D, Aghezzaf S, et al. - An elevated risk of mortality may not exist in asymptomatic patients with moderate aortic stenosis (AS) receiving standard symptomatic and echocardiographic follow-up.

• This is a cohort study wherein 2,703 patients with mild, moderate, and severe AS were followed up by 117 cardiologists for a median of 2.1 years.

• Of participants, those suffering from moderate AS were found to have a slightly higher risk of cardiovascular death compared with patients having mild AS, but this risk was much lower than that noted in severe AS.

• Moreover, in asymptomatic cases, moderate and mild AS was identified to be linked with similar cardiovascular death.