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We thank Dr Dimitrow and his colleagues for their interest in our work on postexercise troponin rises in patients with clinical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) using mutation carriers as controls.1 Concerns were expressed with regard to methodological issues.
First, a single 6-hour postexercise troponin measurement was mentioned as a shortcoming of our study. It was suggested that additional 12-hour, 18-hour and 24-hour sampling should also have been performed. We agree that additional sampling could have …
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Contributors Both authors contributed significantly to the present work.
Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Competing interests None declared.
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