The normal heart exhibits intrinsic diurnal variations in metabolism and contractile function that are lost in cardiac hypertrophy, suggesting a loss of metabolic plasticity that may contribute to contractile dysfunction.
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Hypertrophy may abolish cardiac metabolic rhythms; this animal finding leaves open whether targeting them improves human HF.
Young et al. (2001) studied this question.
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