Vital signs and demographics in the preparticipation sports exam: Do they help us find the elusive athlete at risk for sudden cardiac death?

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 338-341

  Sealy, David P ^a   Pekarek, Lesslie ^b   Russ, David ^c   Sealy, Clark ^c   Goforth, Gary ^b  

^a Primary Care Sports Medicine   (United States)

^b Montgomery Ctr for Family Medicine   (United States)

^c Self Regional Healthcare   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CHILD; DEMOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART PALPITATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SCHOOL CHILD; SUDDEN DEATH; THORAX PAIN; VITAL SIGN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; CHILD; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SPORTS; VITAL SIGNS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78651387203     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e3182014ed6     Document Type: Article

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