“…The underlying aetiology of childhood-onset hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is heterogeneous, including malformation syndromes, inborn errors of metabolism and neuromuscular disease, but most cases, even in very young children, are caused by variants in one or more cardiac sarcomere protein genes. [5][6][7][8][9] Sudden cardiac death is the most common cause of death during childhood and adolescence 6,10,11 and identifying those individuals with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy at highest risk of sudden cardiac death is a major aspect of clinical care in childhood hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. Early studies in small, highly selected childhood cohorts reported an annual incidence of sudden cardiac death of up to 7%, 12,13 but more recent data from larger population-based studies have shown sudden cardiac death rates between 0.8 and 2% per year, 10,14-16 much lower than the initial reports but nevertheless substantially higher than those seen in adults with…”