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It's complicated and even cardiologists don't completely understand it. Is it heart failure that eventually kills oHCM patients or is it usually an electrical storm because the patient didn't realise that there was an issue in the first place. The ones that are diagnosed early because of family history will typically get an ICD. I have seen that in action on a friend with oHCM that went into VT during exercise. The heart does what is necessary to provide sufficient blood and it will remodel accordingly so I am not sure what lowering/raising the horse power does in the longer term as the vasovagal response will compensate for the lower horse power. Seems like surgery is still the way out for oHCM. As for HCM, some scar more easily than others when heavy loads are placed on the heart. There will be electrical signals via arrhythmia and ectopic beats. The folks that are fortunate enough to be symptomatic to those things will get diagnose early and have a high probability of getting it treated. The asymptomatic ones will end up on the heart failure path. The above for people that exercise. And then there are a lot of other risk factors for non-exercisers and I am not sure lowering the horse power is really the answer for that reason. Lots of complexity.