• Revista clínica española · Jun 2021

    Prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a large sample of the Spanish working population.

    • J Rodríguez-Capitán, A Fernández-Meseguer, P Márquez-Camas, J M García-Pinilla, E Calvo-Bonacho, T García-Margallo, F Cabrera-Bueno, J J Gómez-Doblas, M F Jiménez-Navarro, and E de Teresa-Galván.
    • UGC Área del Corazón, Servicio de Cirugía Cardiovascular y Cardiología, Hospital Universitario Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, España; Instituto Biosanitario de Málaga (IBIMA), CIBERCV Enfermedades Cardiovasculares, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, España.
    • Rev Clin Esp. 2021 Jun 1; 221 (6): 315322315-322.

    Background And ObjectivesTo date, in Spain, there are no studies that have evaluated the prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the general population. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in a large sample of the working population of Spain.Materials And MethodsThe study included 13,179 workers (73% men; mean age, 40 years) from 5 regions of Spain who, between May 2008 and November 2010, had a medical examination with an electrocardiogram. The workers with suggestive abnormalities in the electrocardiogram or a predisposing medical history (exertional syncope or sudden death of a family member younger than 50 years) were referred for an echocardiographic evaluation. We defined hypertrophic cardiomyopathy as a parietal thickness ≥13mm in any segment of the left ventricle. We estimated the prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the entire sample and in the workers without hypertension.ResultsA total of 1008 workers were selected for the echocardiogram, although only 496 (49.2% of those selected) of these attended the appointment. After the echocardiogram, we detected 16 cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, estimating a prevalence of 0.24% for the entire sample. In the subgroup of workers with no hypertension, we observed 10 cases of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which corresponds to an estimated prevalence of 0.19%.ConclusionsIn our sample of the working population in Spain, the estimated prevalence of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy was 0.24%. In the subgroup of patients with no hypertension, the estimated prevalence was 0.19%.Copyright © 2021 Elsevier España, S.L.U. and Sociedad Española de Medicina Interna (SEMI). All rights reserved.

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