Screening for Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy in Young Athletes
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- 6 August 1998
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 339 (6) , 364-369
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199808063390602
Abstract
For more than 20 years in Italy, young athletes have been screened before participating in competitive sports. We assessed whether this strategy results in the prevention of sudden death from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a common cardiovascular cause of death in young athletes.Keywords
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