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Athletic physicals grow in rigor for teen athletes

...000 and the culprit in one-third of the deaths is hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a disease which thickens the heart muscle.Aarhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) represents only four percent of the sudden cardiac deaths...

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Sports

...cardiac arrests for which researchers could find a cause, most were due to clogged, hardened arteries or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a sometimes inherited condition in which an unusually thick heart muscle can interfere with the pumping rhythm. Most...

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Retreat center offers new twist to Crosslake home cabin tour

...The Miseners lost their daughter, Mickey, 13, in 1988, of a cardiac arrest. She had a heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, that the family was not aware of. The Miseners opened Smile Again Ministries two years ago, but have been doing grief...

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Lifestyle
Pillager second-grader has personal reason to raise money for heart association

...for his age partially because he has cardiomyopathy, a heart disease in which the heart...only person in his family to have cardiomyopathy. His sister, Lauren, also has the...told the Bordwells that Brady had cardiomyopathy. "It was very frightening," said...

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Mother of two is latest in family to battle genetic heart disease

...brothers, Michael, 29, and Jon, 19, to the disease -- cardiomyopathy. Hart is faced with months of rehabilitation and therapy...correct an irregular heartbeat. The Wasnie family learned cardiomyopathy is a disease that can kill suddenly or deteriorate the heart...

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Another major milestone for Sue Huff

...lifetime. Huff, then 34, suffered from cardiomyopathy and chose to try a heart transplant...respirator for 36 hours. Afflicted with cardiomyopathy since birth, Huff said she never...Ken Wasnie also was afflicted with cardiomyopathy. He received a heart transplant in...

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Study: Defibrillators prevent sudden death in people with heart condition

...a Minnesota study found. The condition, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, involves heart muscle enlargement and an overly vigorous...New England Journal of Medicine looked at 128 hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients and followed them for an average of three years...

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Heart problem sidelines PR-B athlete

...Center in Brainerd, Flier was diagnosed with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. "It's where the (interventicular) septum muscle...brought awareness to the Flier family that hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is hereditary. "We found out afterwards that my uncle...

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Neighbors
Transplant gives Jhonna new hope

...lifetime battle with a genetic heart disease, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition that has plagued several members of her family...symptoms before Loftis blacks out. She was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy when she was 5, and while she was able to participate on...

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Sue Huff's long battle ends

...then 34-year-old Sue Huff with cardiomyopathy, a hereditary and deteriorating heart...basketball team, also was afflicted with cardiomyopathy. He received a heart transplant in...of Brainerd in the late 1970s with cardiomyopathy, a hereditary and deteriorating heart...

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