{
  "abstract": "In their interesting paper, Davidson et al 1 studied the ability of auscultation to identify heart valve disease. They randomly selected participants in the Tromsø 7 study to undergo both cardiac auscultation (digitally recorded and then evaluated offline by trained general practitioners, GPs) and echocardiography, reporting on a final dataset of 2082 subjects. The current study is informative regarding the prevalence of murmurs and their accuracy for detection of valvular heart disease (VHD). It is unusual in including a broad age spectrum (from 40 years) as compared with the elderly populations typical of similar studies.2",
  "authors": [
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Cardio-Thoracic-Vascular Diseases, Fondazione IRCCS Ca’ Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy"
      ],
      "name": "Andrea Faggiano"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Cardiology, University Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy"
      ],
      "name": "Nicola Gaibazzi"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Cardiology, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA"
      ],
      "name": "Gregg Pressman"
    },
    {
      "affiliations": [
        "Cardiovascular, Fondazione Poliambulanza Istituto Ospedaliero, Brescia, Italy"
      ],
      "name": "Pompilio Faggiano"
    }
  ],
  "title": "Is cardiac auscultation still needed in a digital world?",
  "uid": "1ae2bff1-c6f8-57a4-8cf3-946ffd7bb619"
}