New Hope for Stopping Sudden Cardiac Deaths

(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Sudden cardiac death in young athletes has been a problem since the year 490 B.C., when a young Greek soldier ran from Marathon to Athens and fell suddenly to his death. (Source: www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) The sudden death of a young athlete is tragic, but for the first time researchers have identified the molecular basis for the condition that is the most common cause of sudden cardiac death, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
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