Genes can play a big role in both your overall health and your risk of inheriting certain diseases. As the scientific community has learned more about the role of genetics in diseases over the past two decades, knowing your family medical history is becoming increasingly important. Case in point— a heart condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (more frequently referred to as HCM). HCM is estimated to affect approximately between 1 in every 500 people and 1 in 200 people and is also the most common genetic heart condition—despite this, many people with the disease don’t even know they have it.*[1],[2],[3]