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To the Editor: The article by Freed et al. (July 1 issue)¹ is a major contribution to the study of the prevalence of mitral-valve prolapse and the various symptoms that have been attributed to it. Unfortunately, their findings do not justify the enthusiasm that this article has generated in the media with respect to the low prevalence of mitral-valve prolapse and its benign outcome.

The authors deserve credit for demonstrating that chest pain and dyspnea are not more common in subjects with mitral-valve prolapse than in subjects without prolapse and that the previously reported association was probably due to a . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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