
The Sporting Heart
The Real Science of Sport Podcast
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Suddenly Cardiac Death in Young Athletes
Every paper on etiology of sudden cardiac arrest or sudden cardiac death in young athletes has a particular pygraph and that pygraph has almost 20 entities of conditions known to be associated with sudden cardiac death. Because they vary it makes it challenging sometimes to identify before there's a problem so screening becomes more challenging when there's not just one condition that you're looking for. No screen will identify every single condition sort of on that broad list of problems. So all in all I think that there are structural and electrical and acquired heart conditions and they vary.
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