Does sports activity enhance the risk of sudden cardiac death?

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 228-233

  Corrado, Domenico ^a,b   Basso, Cristina ^a   Schiavon, Maurizio ^a   Thiene, Gaetano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Department of Cardiology ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Athletes; Cardiomyopathy; Coronary artery disease; Sudden death; Ventricular fibrillation

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ATHLETE; CARDIOMYOPATHY; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE COURSE; EXERCISE; HEART ARREST; HEART INFARCTION; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE FIBRILLATION; HUMAN; REVIEW; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SPORT; SUDDEN DEATH; FITNESS; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; ITALY; MORTALITY; RISK;

ARRHYTHMIA; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HUMANS; ITALY; PHYSICAL FITNESS; RISK; SPORTS;

EID: 33646450951     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/01.JCM.0000219313.89633.45     Document Type: Review

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