Assertion: infective endocarditis | /r/HasProperty | male gender
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text: Other significant non-cardiac risk factors risk factors (Table 1) for infective endocarditis are: 1) advancing age (in part due to the increased prevalence of predisposing cardiac lesions, e.g. , prior infective endocarditis, degenerative cardiac lesions and prosthetic cardiac valves; and 2) male gender (in part due to the increased prevalence of certain cardiac lesions, such as bicuspid aortic valve, in males).