Some patients with diabetes develop a serious condition known as diabetic cardiomyopathy, which is slow and cannot be directly attributed to hypertension or other cardiovascular disorders.
In infants with cardiomyopathy-associated chronic HF, baseline LVEF of less than 40% and β blocker use indicate a decreased chance of LVEF normalization.
Dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) is a heterogeneous disorder that is familial in approximately 30% of cases. Although several genes have been identified that can cause familial DCM, molecular analyses ...
A potentially life-changing heart condition, dilated cardiomyopathy, can be caused by the cumulative influence of hundreds or thousands of genes and not just by a single "aberrant" genetic variant ...
The researchers developed a polygenic risk score to assess an individual’s likelihood of developing dilated cardiomyopathy based on the many small effects of these genes. They found that those ...