The 2019 American Heart Association Scientific Sessions (AHA), held in Philadelphia last month, featured a joint session with the ACC dedicated to the "Care of the Athletic Heart," along with a number of sports and exercise cardiology-related research.

Prashant Rao, MBBS, Fellow in Training at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA, provides a summary of key data presented at the meeting.

Topics include arrhythmias in endurance athletes, response to exercise training in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), safety of exercise in patients with HCM and more. Read the article here.