作者
Nathan R Riding, Nabeel Sheikh, Carmen Adamuz, Victoria Watt, Abdulaziz Farooq, Gregory P Whyte, Keith P George, Jonathan A Drezner, Sanjay Sharma, Mathew G Wilson
发表日期
2015/3/1
期刊
Heart
卷号
101
期号
5
页码范围
384-390
出版商
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Cardiovascular Society
简介
Background
An increasing number of sporting bodies report unacceptably high levels of false-positive ECGs when undertaking pre-participation cardiac screening. To address this issue, modified ECG interpretation criteria have become available for use within athletes.
Objective
This study assessed the accuracy of the new 2014 ‘Refined Criteria’ against the 2013 Seattle Criteria and the 2010 European Society of Cardiology (ESC) recommendations in a cohort of Arabic, black and Caucasian athletes.
Methods
2491 male athletes (1367 Arabic, 748 black and 376 Caucasian) undertook pre-participation screening including a 12-lead ECG, with further investigation(s) upon indication.
Results
Ten athletes (0.4%) were identified with cardiac pathology; seven with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM; five black and two Arabic) and three Arabs with Wolff–Parkinson–White syndrome (WPW). All three ECG criteria were 100 …
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