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Clinical to Population Prevalence of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Phenotype: Insights From the National Echo Database Australia.
Heart, lung & circulation - 1 Feb 2024
Playford David, Strange Geoff A, Atherton John J, Harris Sarah, Chan Yih-Kai, Stewart Simon
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BACKGROUND: There is a paucity of data describing the underlying prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a primary genetic disorder characterised by progressive left ventricular (LV) hypertrophy and sudden death, from both a clinical and a population perspective. METHODS: We screened the echocardiographic reports of 155,668 men and 147,880 women within the multicentre National Echo Database Australia...
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