Increased heart rate with sleep disordered breathing in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

• Authors: KONEČNÝ Tomáš; KHOO Michael; COVASSIN Naima; EDELHOFER Paul; BUKARTYK Jan; PARK Jae Yoon; VENKATARAMAN Shreyas; KARIM Shahid; CHAHAL Anwar; KARA Tomas; ORBAN Marek; LUDKA Ondřej; KAUTZNER Josef; OMMEN Steve R.; SOMERS Virend K.
• Year of publication: 2021
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: International Journal of Cardiology
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Medicine
• Web: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167527320335476
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijcard.2020.08.020
• Keywords: Sleep apnea; Sleep disordered breathing; Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Heart rate; Autonomic nervous system.
• Description: Current guidelines recommend medications with rate control properties for symptomatic patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) based on the rationale that lowering heart rate (HR) improves their symptoms. Whether sleep disordered breathing (SDB) is associated with increased HR in HCM patients is not known.