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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine research2015

Pre-participation and follow-up screening of athletes for endurance sport.

Roman Leischik, Birgit Dworrak, Peter Foshag, Markus Strauss, Norman Spelsberg, Henning Littwitz, Marc Horlitz

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  8. ECG screening in athletes: optional or mandatory?Netherlands heart journal : monthly journal of the Netherlands Society of Cardiology and the Netherlands Heart Foundation · 2015
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Roman LeischikFaculty of Health, School of Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
Birgit DworrakFaculty of Health, School of Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
Peter FoshagFaculty of Health, School of Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
Markus StraussFaculty of Health, School of Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
Norman SpelsbergFaculty of Health, School of Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
Henning LittwitzFaculty of Health, School of Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany.
Marc HorlitzFaculty of Health, School of Medicine, University Witten/Herdecke, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Physical activity increases life expectancy and sport is a priori not harmful. Exhausted sporting activity (e.g. endurance running, triathlon, cycling or competitive sport) can lead under individual conditions to negative cardiac remodelling (pathological enlargement/function of cardiac cavities/structures) or in worst case to cardiac arrhythmias and sudden cardiac death (SCD). This individually disposition can be genetically determined or behaviourally/environmentally acquired. Overall competitive young male athletes suffer five-fold higher than non-competitive athletes from sudden death and athletes aged over 30 bear a potential for arrhythmias, atrial fibrillation or a 20-fold higher possibility for SCD as female athletes. Patients with diabetes, coronary disease, obesity or hypertension require different special managements. Screening of cardiorespiratory health for sport activities has a lot of faces. Basically there is a need for indicated examinations or possible preventive measures inside or outside of pre-competition screening. The costs of screening compared to expenditure of whole effort for sporting activities are acceptable or even negligible, but of course dependent on national/regional settings. The various causes and possibilities of screening will be discussed in this article as basic suggestion for an open discussion beyond national borders and settings.

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AthletesEndurance sportPhysical activityPre-participation screening

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PMID25883700
PMCPMC4394910

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