The Risks of Cardiovascular Stress Tests

The consensus is that athletes need to go through these what we call pre-screening um ECGs so you were probably yeah probably had electrodes on your body. There's a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy which accounts for about 50 percent of these sudden cardiac deaths. The concern is there's an unacceptably high number of those false positives in North America and Canada and the United States they do not.