Cardiac Arrest

Sudden-death risk tracked in large, long-running study of young athletes

Published in Cardiovascular Week, January 12th, 2004

A cohort study that followed millions of young Italians over a 21-year period indicates that competitive sports can trigger sudden death from underlying cardiac problems among young athletes at more than twice the rate among nonathletes, according to a new report.

"The prevalence of sudden death in athletes was two-and-a-half times that in nonathletes. Sport activity increases the risk of sudden death because effort facilitates cardiac arrest in people bearing hidden cardiac defects. Therefore, identification of concealed diseases should be mandatory in order to rule out affected patients from sport eligibility," said Gaetano Thiene, MD, from the University of Padua,...

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