Sudden death in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy rarely associated with exercise

(European Society of Cardiology) Sudden death in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is rarely associated with exercise, according to research presented at ESC Congress 2016 today by Dr. Gherardo Finocchiaro, a cardiologist at St George's University of London, UK. Nearly 80 percent of patients in the study had no symptoms and only one in five had been diagnosed with HCM before their death.