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National Congress of Sport`s Medicine
Yesterday and today Ive also been in the National congress of Sport Medicine in Lisbon. Some proeminent portuguese doctors have discussed medical screening strategies in athletes, complex arrythmias, training loads and endocrine, oesteomuscular and cardiovascular modifications in athletes... The sudden death was a current theme discussed there.I loved these days…
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and in the end, I kept the frightening idea that high level competition may not be as harmless as I thought. Here I leave some themes discussed there:- The actual training loads of high level teenager athletes are proved to be harmful (affecting the teenage development and maybe his hearts impulse conducting system in long term).- Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (a big heart muscle) is the cause of almost 40% of sudden deaths in athletes.- A great part of sudden deaths are a result of genetic disorders (mainly disorders that affect ion channels in the cells of the heart) that in an…
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