Trends in sudden cardiovascular death in young competitive athletes after implementation of a preparticipation screening program.

By D. Corrado, C. Basso, Andrea Pavei, Pierantonio Michieli, M. Schiavon, G. Thiene. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2006

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging

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Citations in the corpus

• 2019 HRS expert consensus statement on evaluation, risk stratification, and management of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy. (2019, background): “A seminal review of autopsies in Italy showed that participation in competitive athletics resulted in a more than 5-fold increase in SCD risk among adolescents and young adults with ARVC(240) and that implementing a preparticipation screening program resulted in a sharp decline in deaths.(241) The d”
• Exercise Increases Age-Related Penetrance and Arrhythmic Risk in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy Associated Desmosomal Mutation Carriers (2013, result): “Consistent with this observation, implementation of a pre-participation screening program resulted in a sharp decline in such deaths (28).”
• Exercise and acute cardiovascular events placing the risks into perspective: a scientific statement from the American Heart Association Council on Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Metabolism and the Council on Clinical Cardiology. (2007, background): “The European recommendation is based largely on an observational study performed in the Veneto region of Italy (51).”
• Sudden Deaths in Young Competitive Athletes: Analysis of 1866 Deaths in the United States, 1980–2006 (2009, methodology): “However, it was not possible to reliably assign a precise cause of death in the other 513 athletes owing to a variety of factors: (1) Autopsy examination was not performed; (2) access to postmortem and/or clinical findings was restricted by confidentiality and privacy obstacles (10 states prohibit t”