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CardiovascularSevere
Cardiomyopathy
Cardiology · Cardiovascular
Severe
Severity
Uncommon — affects a smaller proportion of the population compared to coronary artery disease, but remains a significant cause of heart failure
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Cardiology
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Causes vary by type and include genetic mutations affecting heart muscle proteins
- 2long-standing uncontrolled hypertension
- 3viral infections that inflame the heart muscle
- 4chronic excessive alcohol use
- 5and certain nutritional deficiencies. Some cases occur during or shortly after pregnancy
- 6known as peripartum cardiomyopathy
- 7while others result from prolonged rapid heart rhythms. In many cases
- 8especially hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
- 9the condition runs in families and is passed down genetically.
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