Background: Pre-participation cardiovascular evaluation (PPE) aims to detect cardiac disease with sudden cardiac death (SCD) risk. No study has focused on Pacific Island athletes.
Methods: A total of 2281 Pacific Island athletes were studied with (i) a questionnaire on family, personal history and symptoms, (ii) a physical examination and (iii) a 12-lead ECG.
Objectives: Appraisal of the agreement between patients' reports and general practitionners' declaration in a French Caribbean population and relationship with blood pressure normalization.
Methods: One hundred French Caribbean practitioners participated in this observational survey: each of them included five essential hypertensives treated for more than three months. BP was considered to be normalized if inferior to 140/90 mmHg.
Open Access J Sports Med
November 2013
Background: Aging is associated with a decrease in physical skills, sometimes accompanied by a change in quality of life (QOL). Long-term martial arts practice has been proposed as an avenue to counter these deleterious effects. The general purpose of this pilot study was to identify the effects of an adapted karate training program on QOL, depression, and motor skills in 50-year-old men.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground And Aim Of The Study: The study aim was to describe the clinical spectrum and mechanism of acute severe mitral regurgitation (MR) observed during first episodes of rheumatic fever (RF), and to identify prognostic factors related to the short-term outcome.
Methods: Since 1990, 44 patients (mean age 9.2 +/- 0.
Background: Platelet activation by antistreptokinase (SK) antibodies could impair the clinical effect of SK administration.
Objective: To better describe anti-SK antibodies with particular emphasis on procoagulant activities as a result of platelet activation.
Patients And Methods: Sera were collected from 146 patients with coronary artery disease: non-SK-treated, 95 from mainland France, 31 from French Polynesia; 20 patients from mainland in year 2 after SK treatment.