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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2018-01-01
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Series: | PLoS ONE |
Online Access: | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5933727?pdf=render |