The Chinese Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Study(CHCS)

In the present study, patients with HCM are recruited prospectively after informed consent was given. The investigator will collect the baseline clinical characteristics of the patients at enrollment, including comprehensive physical examination, laboratory testing of blood and urine, electrocardiography, 24-hr Holter, echocardiography, MRI and other examinations if necessary. The specimens retained include blood for all patients and myocardium for patients receive surgery of myocardial myectomy. Multi-omics screening, including genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, will be performed to identified novel disease genes, signal pathway or processes, genetic risk factors and potential therapy targets of HCM. Furthermore, besides examining the accuracy of SCD risk prediction of the 2011 ACCF/AHA and 2014 ESC guidelines, we will identify novel risk factors associated with the clinical outcomes and construct predictive models suitable for Chinese patients with HCM.

Inclusion criteria

Patients with HCM diagnosed by observation of unexplained maximal left ventricle wall thickness ≥15 mm on echocardiography and/or cardiac magnetic resonance imaging or or ≥13 mm for individuals with family history of HCM.

Exclusion criteria

Individuals with other cardiac or systemic diseases capable of producing that magnitude of cardiac hypertrophy.