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- Sports-related sudden death mainly affects middle-aged men involved in leisure sports and is often linked to undetected coronary artery disease, while athletes more commonly face structural and electrical heart issues.
- Initiating first-aid resuscitation can lead to survival rates over 50%, highlighting the importance of quick response and education in improving outcomes for cardiac arrests, even outside of sports.
- Preventing cardiovascular events during sports is challenging; it requires thorough clinical assessments, family history inquiries, and ECGs for those over 35, along with promoting good sports practices and life-saving training.
Article Abstract
Sports-related sudden death is an uncommon event, affecting mainly middle-aged men who practice leisure sports, and is related to unknown coronary artery disease. In athletes, cardiac causes are also predominant, with a greater proportion of structural and electrical heart disease. If first-aid resuscitation measures are initiated, survival easily exceeds 50%, and this is an excellent educational illustration of how to improve the prognosis of non-sport-related cardiac arrest. Prevention of a sport-related cardiovascular event remains difficult, and relies on clinical examination, questioning (including family history) and resting ECG in participants >35 years old. The non-contraindication visit is also an opportunity to pass on to the patient the rules of good sports "hygiene" and life-saving gestures in the event of sudden death during sport in one of the partners (and the importance of regularly educating oneself in life-saving gestures...).
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ancard.2024.101764 | DOI Listing |
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