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European Heart Journal Advance Access published online on October 29, 2007
European Heart Journal, doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm491
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2007. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

What duration of the QTc interval should disqualify athletes from competitive sports?

Arthur J. Moss

Heart Research Follow-up Program, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY 14642-8653, USA

Corresponding author. Tel: +1 585 275 5391; fax: +1 585 273 5283.E-mail address: heartajm@heart.rochester.edu

This editorial refers to ‘Prevalence and significance of an isolated long QT interval in elite athletes’ by S. Basavarajaiah et al., doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehm404

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Vigorous athletic activities are encouraged in junior school, competitive sports are part of the school curriculum during adolescence and early adulthood, and a high national emphasis is placed on elite athletes and their teams to win international championships. Endurance sports are associated with a small yet definite risk of sudden cardiac death among participants, estimated at a rate of 1–2 sudden deaths per 100 000 athletes per year in Europe,1 with an absolute number of ~300 cardiac-related athletic deaths annually in the USA.2 During the past 25 years, cardiology societies . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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