AHA publishes statement on exercise and those with congenital heart defects
Posted at 10:03 PM
The Right Workout for Those With Congenital Heart Defects: "Children, teens and young adults with genetic heart disease can exercise recreationally but need to get advice from their doctors about the kinds of physical activity that are safe, a new American Heart Association scientific statement recommends.

The statement, published in the June 7 issue of Circulation, is meant to help doctors counsel patients who have an increased risk for sudden death while they're doing physical activity.
This includes people with a number of kinds of genetic heart disease such as: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; Marfan syndrome; and ion channel diseases, including long QT syndrome, Brugada syndrome and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia."