Of 86 Korean patients with recurrent spontaneous panic attacks, not one had definite mitral valve prolapse (MVP). With a very low prevalence of MVP in the general Korean population, this finding suggests that MVP may not be specifically associated with panic attack.
Adolescent ; Adult ; Fear* ; Female ; Human ; Korea ; Male ; Middle Age ; Mitral Valve Prolapse/epidemiology* ; Mitral Valve Prolapse/psychology ; Panic* ; Recurrence