Preventing sudden cardiac death in athletes: in search of evidence-based, cost-effective screening

Sudden cardiac death in athletes is a recurrent phenomenon at sporting events and during training. Recent studies have associated sudden cardiac death with such cardiovascular conditions as coronary artery anomalies, cardiomyopathies, and electrocardiographic abnormalities, most of which are screena...

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Published in:	Texas Heart Institute journal Vol. 40; no. 2; pp. 148 - 155
Main Authors:	Angelini, Paolo, Vidovich, Mladen I, Lawless, Christine E, Elayda, Macarthur A, Lopez, J Alberto, Wolf, Dwayne, Willerson, James T
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States Texas Heart Institute 2013
Subjects:	Adolescent Adult Age Factors Athletes Autopsy Child Cross-Sectional Studies Death, Sudden, Cardiac - etiology Death, Sudden, Cardiac - prevention & control Electrocardiography Evidence-Based Medicine Female Forthcoming Clinical Investigation Heart Diseases - complications Heart Diseases - diagnosis Heart Diseases - economics Heart Diseases - mortality Heart Diseases - therapy Humans Magnetic Resonance Imaging Male Mass Screening - economics Mass Screening - methods Pilot Projects Predictive Value of Tests Prospective Studies Risk Factors Surveys and Questionnaires Texas Young Adult Texas death, sudden, cardiac/etiology/prevention & control heart defects, congenital/diagnosis mass screening/standards guidelines as topic Adolescent preventive medicine arrhythmias, cardiac/complications sports medicine coronary vessel anomalies/complications adult magnetic resonance angiography practice guidelines as topic
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