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The relative increase in the coming decades in the number of individuals of both sexes combined with severe aortic stenosis, defined by echocardiography (ECHO) as an aortic valve area index <0.6 cm2/m2 and by computed tomography (CT) as an aortic valve calcium score ≥500. Baseline in the year 2012 is set as 1, when 1230 individuals by ECHO and 1762 by CT were estimated to have severe aortic stenosis.
