| Pre-competition cardiac screening in professional handball players - setting up at the EHF European Handball Championship 2010 in Austria. | |
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PMID: 21953430 Owner: NLM Status: Publisher |
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In many sports, regular cardiac screening for exercise-associated sudden cardiac death is still not provided. To set up the current situation in top-skilled handball players qualified for the 2010 European Handball Championship in Austria, a standardised questionnaire was sent to every team. The fact that only 42.7% of the players returned the questionnaire may lead to the conclusion that the awareness of the problem is quite low. However, 82% of these players have been screened according to current recommendations. Half of the teams were screened inhomogeneously: 5 players (4.1%) have not been screened within the last years, 1 athlete (0.8%) was screened without an ECG. While 69% of the athletes got their first screening only after the age of 18, 16 players (13.1%) never went through a specific screening ever. We identified 17 athletes (13.9%) with a highly suspicious history, 2 of them (1.6%) never underwent a medical screening at all. |
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Authors:
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Reinhard Geyer; Hans-Georg Predel; Thomas Wolber; Klaus-Peter Mellwig; Christian Schmied |
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Type: JOURNAL ARTICLE |
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Title: Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) Volume: 161 ISSN: 1563-258X ISO Abbreviation: - Publication Date: 2011 Aug |
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Created Date: 2011-9-28 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 8708475 Medline TA: Wien Med Wochenschr Country: - |
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Languages: ENG Pagination: 387-393 Citation Subset: - |
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Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland. |
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Kardiale Vorsorgeuntersuchung bei professionellen Handball Spielern - Standortbestimmung im Rahmen der EHF Handball Europameisterschaft 2010 in Österreich. |
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