Exercise Test

The Care of the Athletic Heart Conference, held at Heart House in Washington, D.C., in early June, covered the entire scope of sports cardiology, with sessions tailored to new and seasoned sports cardiologists.

Mavacamten improved a range of cardiopulmonary exercise testing parameters beyond peak oxygen uptake in patients with obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy in the EXPLORER-HCM randomized trial, researchers reported.

Patients who underwent noninvasive diagnostic testing after evaluation for chest pain in the ED had a lower observed rate of CV death or MI, according to a retrospective cohort study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.

Patients with perceived fatiguability had elevated CVD risk as measured by the Pooled Cohort Equation, researchers reported.