Detection of cardiac abnormalities in elite black and white athletes: Still not black and white

摘要

Sports are "hot." The average cost of a 30-second advertisement at the 2014 Super Bowl was $4000000, and millions of fans worldwide spent much of their February 2014 watching the Sochi Winter Olympics and its advertising. Sports cardiology is also hot. The American College of Cardiology in 2011 established a section dedicated to sports and exercise cardiology, and now there are several sports cardiology sessions during its annual meeting. Additional heat in sports cardiology comes from for the controversy regarding whether the screening of young athletes for sports participation requires an ECG. European colleagues favor ECG screening primarily because of a 2006 observational study demonstrating reduced cardiovascular deaths among screened athletes and no decrease in a nonathletic comparison population. At least 2 subsequent articles failed to corroborate a reduction in events with ECG screening.