What Is Pericarditis?
3. What Are Common Patient Characteristics?
Pericarditis is a common heart condition, and it can affect people of all ages and ethnicities. While women can present with the disease, variations of pericarditis are more likely to show in men between the ages of 20 and 50 years old; however, that does not mean that the heart problem will not affect patients outside of this parameter.
The condition can present in a variety of ways. Between 15% and 30% of patients diagnosed with acute pericarditis experience it again, and some of those patients end up developing chronic pericarditis.
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