Prevalence of clinically apparent hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in Germany-An analysis of over 5 million patients.

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited heart disease. Reported prevalence rates vary substantially between 1:500 (0.2%) and 1:3,000 (0.03%), which may be attributed to different study designs and population characteristics. Prevalence data for Germany is not available. Conseq...

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Main Authors: Daniela Husser, Laura Ueberham, Josephine Jacob, Denise Heuer, Steffi Riedel-Heller, Jochen Walker, Gerhard Hindricks, Andreas Bollmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5933727?pdf=render