Restricting sports for athletes with heart disease: Are we saving lives, avoiding lawsuits, or just promoting obesity and sedentary living?

Pediatric Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 407-416

  Vaseghi, Marmar ^a   Ackerman, Michael J ^b   Mandapati, Ravi ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Laboratory   (United States)

^c LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Athletes; Heart disease; Sports

Indexed keywords

AORTA COARCTATION; AORTA STENOSIS; ATHLETE; BRUGADA SYNDROME; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CATECHOLAMINERGIC POLYMORPHIC VENTRICULAR TACHYCARDIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONGENITAL HEART DISEASE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CORONARY ARTERY ANOMALY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; GENETIC DISORDER; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DYSPLASIA; HEART VENTRICLE ARRHYTHMIA; HEART VENTRICLE EXTRASYSTOLE; HUMAN; HYPERTROPHIC CARDIOMYOPATHY; INCIDENCE; LAW SUIT; LONG QT SYNDROME; MARFAN SYNDROME; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; MYOCARDITIS; OBESITY; PATHOGENESIS; PHYSICIAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SOCIAL PARTICIPATION; SPORT; SUDDEN DEATH; WOLFF PARKINSON WHITE SYNDROME; HEART DISEASE; LEGAL ASPECT; PATHOLOGY; SPORTS MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; DEATH, SUDDEN, CARDIAC; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; OBESITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEDENTARY LIFESTYLE; SPORTS MEDICINE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862671761     PISSN: 01720643     EISSN: 14321971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00246-012-0170-6     Document Type: Review

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