So anyway...
I've been following the boards pretty closely for several years now, and from what I've observed there is a large percentage of us who have been diagnosed and/or had our symptoms take a dramatic turn for the worse somewhere around our late 30's early 40's. Furthermore, it seems that us late-bloomers tend to make up the bulk of the obstructed HCM population with large gradients that required intervention (myectomy, ablation, norpace, etc.)
There are exceptions of course, since we obviously do have younger HCM'ers who are obstructed and older members who aren't. But in general it appears that the vast majority of us fall into two categories: We're either diagnosed young with a fairly thick septum but no obstruction... or we're diagnosed older with significant obstruction but with a lesser degree of hypertrophy than our younger counterparts.
What's the correlation here?
Jim
I've been following the boards pretty closely for several years now, and from what I've observed there is a large percentage of us who have been diagnosed and/or had our symptoms take a dramatic turn for the worse somewhere around our late 30's early 40's. Furthermore, it seems that us late-bloomers tend to make up the bulk of the obstructed HCM population with large gradients that required intervention (myectomy, ablation, norpace, etc.)
There are exceptions of course, since we obviously do have younger HCM'ers who are obstructed and older members who aren't. But in general it appears that the vast majority of us fall into two categories: We're either diagnosed young with a fairly thick septum but no obstruction... or we're diagnosed older with significant obstruction but with a lesser degree of hypertrophy than our younger counterparts.
What's the correlation here?
Jim
Comment