ACSM's new preparticipation health screening recommendations from ACSM's guidelines for exercise testing and prescription, ninth edition.

By P. Thompson, Ross Arena, D. Riebe, L. Pescatello. Current sports medicine reports, 2013

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Introduction Previously the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) preparticipation health screening recommendations were cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment and stratification of all people, and a medical examination and symptomlimited exercise testing as part of the preparticipation health screening prior to initiating vigorous-intensity physical activity in individuals at increased risk for occult CVD (14). Individuals at increased risk in these recommendations were men Q45 yr and women Q55 yr; those with 2 or more major CVD risk factors; individuals with signs and symptoms of CVD; and those with known cardiac, pulmonary, or metabolic disease. ACSM’s new preparticipation health screening recommendations are as follows:

Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Complementary and alternative medicine, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine

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