European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on February 8, 2005
European Heart Journal 2005 26(5):428-430; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehi154
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How should we screen competitive athletes for cardiovascular disease?
Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center, Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, 920 E. 28th Street, Suite 60, Minneapolis, MN 55407, USA
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This editorial refers to ‘Cardiovascular pre-participation screening of young competitive athletes for prevention of sudden death: proposal for a common European protocol’
by D. Corrado et al., on page 516
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The sudden unexpected deaths of young trained athletes are highly visible events which have a substantial impact on the physician and lay communities.1 Although initially a focal point in the United States in the early 1980s, this issue has now become a matter of concern in most parts of the industrialized world (particularly in Europe). Evidence of this is the highly publicized recent sudden deaths of several elite professional athletes from Europe, South America, and Africa, including Sergio Serginho (Brazil; football), Sergei Zholtok (Latvia; hockey), Marc-Vivian Foe (Cameroon; football), Sergei Grinkov (Russia; skating), Miklos Feher (Hungary; football), Cristiano de Lima, Jr (Brazil; football), and Trevor Borysuk (Canada; hockey), at least one of whom had a cardiac diagnosis made previously.
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