Catheter Ablation of Life-Threatening Ventricular Arrhythmias in Athletes
A recent surveillance analysis indicates that cardiac arrest/death occurs in ≈1:50,000 professional or semi-professional athletes, and the most common cause is attributable to life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias (VAs).
Nicola Tarantino+16 more
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Ventricular arrhythmias in young competitive athletes: Prevalence, determinants, and underlying substrate [PDF]
Whether ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) represent a feature of the adaptive changes of the athlete's heart remains elusive. We aimed to assess the prevalence, determinants, and underlying substrates of VAs in young competitive athletes.Background--Whether ...
Badano, Luigi Paolo+19 more
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Fan Engagement in 15 Seconds: Athletes’ Relationship Marketing During a Pandemic via TikTok
As COVID-19 lockdowns force most sport leagues into hiatus, engaging fans has emerged as a key challenge confronting the sport industry. While navigating social distancing protocols, athletes are experimenting with new ways to connect with their fans ...
Yiran Su+3 more
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POPULAR FALLACIES REGARDING ATHLETES AND ATHLETICS. [PDF]
As a branch of medicine that has for its object the bringing of man to a greater state of physical perfection, the question of athletics has for the more advanced and liberal minded of our profession the highest interest. In our parliamentary city where so many persons suffer from the effect of sedentary life, the athletic remedy seems to be the only ...
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Right ventricular involvement in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy: Patterns and implications
Although hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is the most common inherited cardiomyopathy worldwide, the criteria for its definition and most of the literature concern the left ventricle, thus confirming the theory that the right ventricle is the neglected ...
Kalliopi Keramida+2 more
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National Rugby League athletes and tendon tap reflex assessment: A matched cohort clinical study [PDF]
BACKGROUND: Limited research suggests elite athletes may differ from non-athletes in clinical tendon tap reflex responses. METHODS: In this matched cohort study, 25 elite rugby league athletes were compared with 29 non-athletes to examine differences in ...
Condon, Greg+4 more
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The current ‘state of play’ in supporting elite athlete mental health and wellbeing has centred mostly on building mental health literacy or awareness of the signs of mental ill-health amongst athletes.
R. Purcell, K. Gwyther, S. Rice
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Maximal heart rate in soccer players: Measured versus age-predicted
Background: Although maximal heart rate (HR max) is widely used to assess exercise intensity in sport training, and particularly in soccer, there are limited data with regards to the use of age-based prediction equations of HR max in soccer players.
Pantelis T Nikolaidis
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Mental health difficulties among professional footballers
. Introduction: In parallel with several current and former players’ high-profile disclosures of psychological difficulties, academic studies published during the past decade have begun to examine the mental health of professional footballers. To date, a
Gary Woods, Thomas McCabe, Amit Mistry
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Limb Differences in Unipedal Balance Performance in Young Male Soccer Players with Different Ages
In soccer, the dominant leg is frequently used for passing and kicking while standing on the non-dominant leg. Consequently, postural control in the standing leg might be superior compared to the kicking leg and is further enhanced with increasing age (i.
Thomas Muehlbauer+4 more
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