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Sex-specific cardiac phenotype and clinical outcomes in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
American heart journal - 1 Jan 2020
Lu Dai-Yin, Ventoulis Ioannis, Liu Hongyun, Kudchadkar Shibani M, Greenland Gabriela V, Yalcin Hulya, Kontari Effrosyni, Goyal Sagar, Corona-Villalobos Celia P, Vakrou Styliani, Zimmerman Stefan L, Abraham Theodore P, Abraham M Roselle
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: It is unknown whether sex-specific differences in mortality observed in HCM are due to older age of women at presentation, or whether women have greater degree of LV myopathy than men. METHODS: We retrospectively compared clinical/imaging characteristics and outcomes between women and men in our overall cohort composed of 728 HCM patients, and in an age-matched subgroup comprised of 400 age-matched...
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