| ACC | American College of Cardiology |
| AHA | American Heart Association |
| BMI | Body-mass index |
| CI | Confidence interval |
| COPD | Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease |
| DAPT | Dual antiplatelet therapy |
| DOAC | Direct oral anticoagulant |
| ESC | European Society of Cardiology |
| EACTS | European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery |
| HR | Hazard ratio |
| ICD | Implantable cardioverter-defibrillator |
| iMACE | Ischemic major adverse cardiovascular events |
| IQR | Interquartile range |
| IPTW | Inverse probability of treatment weighting |
| LVEF | Left-ventricular ejection fraction |
| MI | Myocardial infarction |
| NACE | Net adverse clinical events |
| OAC | Oral anticoagulation |
| PCI | Percutaneous coronary intervention |
| PPM | Permanent pacemaker |
| SAPT | Single antiplatelet therapy |
| SMD | Standardized mean difference |
| STROBE | Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology |
| TAVI | Transcatheter aortic valve implantation |
| VARC-3 | Valve Academic Research Consortium 3 |