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Preventing Young Athletes' Deaths
Rebecca Voelker
JAMA contributor
JAMA. 1998;280:1041.
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As thousands of teenage athletes head for the gridiron and other sports venues this fall, a new report calls for more thorough screening procedures to help prevent sudden cardiac deaths.
The report, by Barry J. Maron, MD, director of cardiovascular research at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, appeared September 1 in the Annals of Internal Medicine. Maron said sudden cardiac death affects about one of 200000 high school athletes each year. The causes vary, but heart disease and blows to the chest from baseballs and soccer balls or contact with other athletes are the most common.
Maron pointed out that methods of screening young athletes for sports participation are inadequate or nonexistent in 40% of the United States. In some cases, examinations are performed by health workers with little expertise in diagnosing heart disease. Therefore, he recommended that school districts adopt the 1996 consensus screening guidelines of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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