CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WVIR) – Cardiologists at UVA Health discovered a new indicator that a person with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is at risk of sudden death or heart failure using imaging.
One in 500 people have the genetic heart condition, and it is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death for young people.
The study, spearheaded by UVA’s cardiology chief Doctor Christopher Kramer, alongside doctors at the University of Oxford in England, looked at 2,700 patients with the heart condition, many over the course of years…