Today a short link to the Wall Street Journal. [this link is to a free, shorter version of the paper – subscription version highlighted below]. BJSM Senior Associate Editor Jon Drezner is quoted liberally – all good stuff for sports medicine and for his University of Washington. Sports cardiology is a hot topic when it […]
Tag: sports cardiology
New Guidelines to Improve ECG/EKG Interpretation in Athletes – Guest Blog by Dr Babette Pluim
Should 12-lead ECG be part of the pre-participation examination of athletes? Those in favor of ECG screening argue that it reduces the risk of sudden cardiovascular death; those against screening point out the low cost-effectiveness, the low disease prevalence resulting in a low positive predictive value, the difficulties in distinguishing abnormal electrocardiographic changes indicative of cardiac […]
Guest Blog – Sports Cardiology by Dr Jon Drezner
This week in Circulation, Dr. Eloi Marijon and colleagues from France published their findings on sports-related sudden death. This 5-year prospective observational study is an impressive achievement and also has a number of important findings. How high is an athlete’s risk of SCD? Notably, the relative risk of sports-related sudden death was 4.5 times higher […]