Does sports activity enhance the risk of sudden death in adolescents and young adults?

By D. Corrado, C. Basso, G. Rizzoli, M. Schiavon, G. Thiene. Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2003

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Subfields: Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine, Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

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Dilated Cardiomyopathy (2007, positive): “When pathological findings emerge, the initial evaluation requires additional tests [18, 21], as recommended by the ESC section of Sports Cardiology, based itself on the Italian protocol [21]: echocardiography, stress testing, Holter ECG monitoring, and eventually cardiac MRI in selected cases [24, ”
2015 ESC Guidelines for the management of patients with ventricular arrhythmias and the preventionof sudden cardiac death (2015, neutral): “ARVC was found as a cause of SCD in 24% of these athletes, followed by atherosclerotic CAD (20%), anomalous origin of coronary arteries (14%) and mitral valve prolapse (12%).(26) In older ath-”
Trends in sudden cardiovascular death in young competitive athletes after implementation of a preparticipation screening program. (2006, methodology): “Cardiomyopathies have been consistently implicated as the leading cause of cardiac arrest in young competitive athletes, with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy accounting for more than one third of fatal cases in the United States(1,4-6) and arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy for approximatel”
Exercise Increases Age-Related Penetrance and Arrhythmic Risk in Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Dysplasia/Cardiomyopathy Associated Desmosomal Mutation Carriers (2013, background): “Depolarization abnormalities* 5 (6) major”
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): “5-fold higher risk among the athletes (25).”
American College of Cardiology/European Society of Cardiology clinical expert consensus document on hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. A report of the American College of Cardiology Foundation Task Force on Clinical Expert Consensus Documents and the European Society of Cardiology Committee for Practice G (2003, background): “A linkage has been established between SCD and intense exertion in trained athletes with underlying cardiovascular disease (including HCM) and SCD (25,270).”