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  • Patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) face restrictions on competitive sports due to risks of sudden cardiac issues, which leads to a sedentary lifestyle that can harm their health.
  • The study compared active HCM patients to sedentary ones and found that those who exercised had better cardiopulmonary fitness and similar arrhythmia rates, while sedentary individuals had worse fitness and higher obesity rates.
  • A personalized moderate-intensity exercise plan was shown to improve fitness in HCM patients without any negative effects, suggesting that tailored exercise can be beneficial for this population.
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Cardiomyopathies are a heterogeneous collection of diseases that have in common primary functional and structural abnormalities of the heart muscle, often genetically determined. The most effective categorization of cardiomyopathies is based on the presenting phenotype, with hypertrophic, dilated, arrhythmogenic, and restrictive cardiomyopathy as the prototypes. Sex modulates the prevalence, morpho-functional manifestations and clinical course of cardiomyopathies.

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Genetic testing for hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is an established clinical technique, supported by 30 years of research into its genetic etiology. Although pathogenic variants are often detected in patients and used to identify at-risk relatives, the effectiveness of genetic testing has been hampered by ambiguous genetic associations (yielding uncertain and potentially false-positive results), difficulties in classifying variants, and uncertainty about genotype-negative patients. Recent case-control studies on rare variation, improved data sharing, and meta-analysis of case cohorts contributed to new insights into the genetic basis of HCM.

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