Does preseason screening for cardiac disease really work? the British perspective

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Deutscher übersetzter Titel:Sportvorsorgeuntersuchung im Hinblick auf Kardiopathien: funktioniert das? - die britische Perspektive
Autor:MacAuley, D.
Erschienen in:Medicine and science in sports and exercise
Veröffentlicht:30 (1998), Suppl. to 10, S. S345-S350, Lit.
Format: Literatur (SPOLIT)
Publikationstyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
Medienart: Gedruckte Ressource
Sprache:Englisch
ISSN:0195-9131, 1530-0315
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Erfassungsnummer:PU199811305708
Quelle:BISp

Abstract des Autors

Sudden cardiac death is always a tragedy. Sudden death during sport is particularly poignant because people tend to associate sport with health and fitness. Both the public and the medical profession would like to prevent such events, and preparticipation medical screening is often promoted as one such method. When we examine the risk of death, the prevalence of at-risk conditions, the natural history of disease, and the screening methods available, it is clear that widespread screening would not be useful. Systematic preparticipation screening is not undertaken widely in the United Kingdom, but this practice has evolved and is not the result of a definite policy decision. Verf.-Referat