Word: mitral
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...require no treatment, and a high-frequency hearing loss in both ears for which he does not need a hearing aid. He sleeps seven hours a night and is an avid swimmer, trying to squeeze in a 50-lap session each day. In 1974 Anderson was diagnosed as having mitral valve prolapse, a slight deformation of one of the four valves of the heart. The condition, not generally dangerous, is thought to be shared by up to 15% of Americans, but it produces a distinct heart noise, and so is known as the "systolic-click-murmur" syndrome...