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Physiologic limits of left ventricular hypertrophy in elite junior athletes

Relevance to differential diagnosis of athlete’s heart and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Sanjay Sharma, MD^*,*, Barry J. Maron, MD, Greg Whyte, PhD, Sami Firoozi, MD, Perry M. Elliott, MD and William J. McKenna, MD

^* Department of Cardiology, University Hospital Lewisham, London, United Kingdom
Department of Cardiological Sciences, St George’s Hospital Medical School, Cranmer Terrace, London, United Kingdom
Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
University of Wolverhampton, Division of Sports Studies, Walsall Campus, Walsall, United Kingdom

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Distribution of left ventricular wall thicknesses in 720 junior elite athletes (black bars) and 250 controls (white bars).