SPORTS MEDICINE : MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: HEART : MEDICAL: TESTS AND TESTING: College Athletes Urged to Get High-Tech Heart Test

[David P. Dillard]

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SPORTS MEDICINE :

MEDICAL: CONDITIONS: HEART :

MEDICAL: TESTS AND TESTING:

College Athletes Urged to Get High-Tech Heart Test

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College Athletes Urged to Get High-Tech Heart Test

By Keith Seinfeld

Tuesday April 23, 2013

KPLU TV Seattle

http://www.kplu.org/post/college-athletes-urged-get-high-tech-heart-test

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College and high school athletes are typically in top physical shape.
Except a few have an invisible heart condition that can lead to sudden
cardiac arrest, where they drop dead on the court or field.

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A new study by a group of physicians led by a team doctor for the
University of Washington Huskies recommends all student athletes get a
high-tech heart scan called an electrocardiogram, or EKG.

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The catch is their doctors probably need additional training.

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Currently, a standard sports physical includes a series of questions about
shortness of breath and family history, and a stethoscope to the chest,
but not an EKG.

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Listening to the heart's electrical rhythm

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The EKG can detect problems in the heart that you cant hear with a
stethoscope. The test also can easily produce false alarms when applied to
young athletes, which has made the test a subject of intense debate in the
sports medicine community.

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A young athletes heart grows and adapts to stress in ways that makes it
different from your average heart. A healthy young heart can show signs on
an EKG that look similar to distress in an older person.

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New research on college athletes

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Dr. Drezner and a group of physicians from 14 major colleges recently
screened nearly 2,500 athletes. The EKG spotted five students who passed a
normal physical with no inkling of trouble but had a hidden heart ailment.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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