Table 3.

Respondent characteristics (n=142)

	n=142 individuals
Age years median (IQR) (range)	52 (30–65) (12–74)*
Gender (n (%))
Female Male	64 (54.9) 78 (45.1)
Respondent type†	N and % of 156 responses
1. May require a future aortic root operation 2. Active consideration of aortic root operation 3. Had an aortic root operation 4. Decision affects a member of my family 5. Medical practitioner	40 (28.2) 5 (3.5) 65 (45.8) 21 (14.8) 25 (17.6)

*Three respondents did not provide their date of birth.

†Twelve individuals entered more than one category: (1,2,4)×2; (1,2)×1; (1,4)×2; (1,5)×1; (3,4)×5; (3,5)×1. The duplicate and triplicate ages were retained in each group for analysis of the age distributions.