Accuracy of the 2017 international recommendations for clinicians who interpret adolescent athletes’ ECGs: a cohort study of 11 168 British white and black soccer players

• Published in: British journal of sports medicine Vol. 54; no. 12; pp. 739 - 745
• Main Authors: Malhotra, Aneil, Dhutia, Harshil, Yeo, Tee-Joo, Finocchiaro, Gherardo, Gati, Sabiha, Bulleros, Paulo, Fanton, Zephyr, Papatheodorou, Efstathios, Miles, Chris, Keteepe-Arachi, Tracey, Basu, Joyee, Parry-Williams, Gemma, Prakash, Keerthi, Gray, Belinda, D'Silva, Andrew, Ensam, Bode, Behr, Elijah, Tome, Maite, Papadakis, Michael, Sharma, Sanjay
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Association of Sport and Exercise Medicine 01.06.2020; BMJ Publishing Group LTD
• Subjects: Adolescent; adolescent athlete; arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; Black athletes; Black People; Cardiology; Cardiomyopathy; Cohort analysis; Disease; ecg criteria; Echocardiography; Electrocardiography; Electrocardiography - standards; Family medical history; Female; Heart Diseases - diagnosis; Heart Diseases - ethnology; Humans; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; Investigations; Male; Males; Mass Screening - standards; Original research; Professional soccer; Questionnaires; Retrospective Studies; screening; Sensitivity and Specificity; Sex Factors; Soccer; Soccer - physiology; Society; Software; Teenagers; Ultrasonic imaging; Weightlifting; White People; United States > US; adolescent athlete; arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; screening; hypertrophic cardiomyopathy; ecg criteria

AimTo investigate the accuracy of the recently published international recommendations for ECG interpretation in young athletes in a large cohort of white and black adolescent soccer players.Methods11 168 soccer players (mean age 16.4±1.2 years) were evaluated with a health questionnaire, ECG and ec...