European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on June 17, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(17):1804-1805; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi380
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Cardiovascular pre-participation screening of young competitive athletes for prevention of sudden death: proposal for a common European protocol: reply
Department of Cardiology
University of Padova
Italy
E-mail address: domenico.corrado@unipd.it
Institute for Sports Sciences
Rome, Italy
Department of Heart Disease
Haukeland University Hospital
Bergen, Norway
Institute of Pathological Anatomy
University of Padova
Italy
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We thank Dr Wren for his interest in the recent consensus statement of the Sports Cardiology Study Group of the ESC. We believe that his concerns have been fully addressed in our primary report.1 In the consensus document, we considered young competitive athletes as individuals aged 35 years or less who