Causes & Risk Factors Of Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome

A Heart Defect

It has been estimated somewhere between seven and twenty percent of patients with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome have some other type of heart defect. In fact, roughly fifteen percent of children with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome present with another type of congenital heart defect. Scientists are not yet quite sure precisely why this happens, but it is certainly regarded as a risk factor.

One of the most well-documented defects associated with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome is familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (FHC), which is an autosomal dominant condition that causes ventricular hypertrophy, a thickening of the left ventricle's walls. The reason for this condition is not yet scientifically known.

Continue reading to learn about gender as a risk factor for Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome now.