Vigorous exercise in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
Why the study?
Does lifetime vigorous exercise affect cardiac structure, function, and ventricular arrhythmias in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
Population
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (including Genotype+ LVH- and HCM LVH+ subgroups)
Design
Cohort
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Discussion
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Implication
Vigorous exercise may support favorable remodeling without VA risk in HCM; leaves open causal effects pending prospective trials.
Structured PICO
Does lifetime vigorous exercise affect cardiac structure, function, and ventricular arrhythmias in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy?
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Population
Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (including Genotype+ LVH- and HCM LVH+ subgroups)
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Intervention
Lifetime vigorous exercise
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Outcome
Left ventricular volumes, left ventricular mass, diastolic function, and ventricular arrhythmias (VAs)surrogate
Lifetime vigorous exercise in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is associated with favorable diastolic remodeling and is not associated with an increased risk of ventricular arrhythmias.
Cite This Study
Dejgaard et al. (2017) studied this question.