Background: Although cardiovascular screening is recommended for athletes before
participating in sports, the role of 12-lead electrocardiography (ECG) remains uncertain. To …

Background Current guidelines for preparticipation screening of competitive athletes in the
US include a comprehensive history and physical examination. The objective of this study …

Sudden cardiac death (SCD) in a young athlete commonly brings to the forefront the many
gaps in knowledge regarding how to predict and prevent these rare tragic events. 1–3 …

BACKGROUND: The diagnosis of subtle structural heart disease in competitive athletes with
ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) and an apparently normal heart is challenging. Three …

One of the fundamental principles of evidence-based medicine is that clinical practice
should be based on evidence derived from sufficiently robust data to ensure that the …

Physical activity is therefore strongly recommended universally in primary and secondary
prevention, to everybody, from young age to the very oldest people. Lack of physical activity …

A discussion of electrocardiographic screening and sudden ca... : Current Opinion in Cardiology
A discussion of electrocardiographic screening and sudden cardiac death prevention: evidence …

Tittle of the New York Giants in our Sunday afternoon football pickup games. The
preparticipation screening of athletes also used to be simple and generally consisted of a …

Background—Stimulants are widely used to treat children with attention deficit/hyperactivity
disorder and may increase the risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD). We examined the cost …

Objective Cardiac adaptation to sports activity in endurance athletes is considerably diff
erent from that in power athletes. The eff ects of a highlevel team sport like handball, one of …