Epidemiology of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy–Related Death
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Epidemiology of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy-related death: revisited in a large non-referral-based patient population.
BACKGROUND Death resulting from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), particularly when sudden, has been reported to be largely confined to young persons. These data emanated from tertiary HCM centers with highly selected referral patterns skewed toward high-risk patients. METHODS AND RESULTS The present analysis was undertaken in an international population of 744 consecutively enrolled and lar...
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عنوان ژورنال: Circulation
سال: 2000
ISSN: 0009-7322,1524-4539
DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.102.8.858