Glob­al­ly

41 mil­lion peo­ple had heart valve dis­ease in 2019.2 Of these, 9.4 mil­lion peo­ple had cal­cif­ic aor­tic valve steno­sis,2 a dis­or­der that devel­ops slow­ly and wors­ens with age and can lead to severe aor­tic valve steno­sis (aor­tic valve dam­age).3

3% of adults over the age of 65 have aor­tic valve steno­sis, a life-threat­en­ing con­di­tion that can be treat­ed with aor­tic valve replace­ment.4

Fig­ure 1: Aor­tic steno­sis preva­lence by age group⁵

Sau­di Ara­bia

The preva­lence of aor­tic steno­sis is expect­ed to increase as life expectan­cy ris­es in the pop­u­la­tion.16

  • 2–7% is the esti­mat­ed preva­lence of aor­tic steno­sis in Sau­di Ara­bia in peo­ple over 60, based on com­pa­ra­ble high-income coun­tries.7–19 Defin­i­tive pop­u­la­tion stud­ies are need­ed to accu­rate­ly assess the size of the treat­able pop­u­la­tion with severe aor­tic steno­sis in Sau­di Ara­bia and else­where.20

Cur­rent­ly, many symp­to­matic aor­tic steno­sis cas­es in Sau­di Ara­bia go undi­ag­nosed and unre­port­ed.21

A five-fold increase is expect­ed by 2050²²

Fig­ure 2: Pre­dict­ed increase in Sau­di Arabia’s elder­ly pop­u­la­tion (60+ years) by 2050

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