Outcomes of Cardiac Screening in Adolescent Soccer Players

• Published in: The New England journal of medicine Vol. 379; no. 6; pp. 524 - 534
• Main Authors: Malhotra, Aneil, Dhutia, Harshil, Finocchiaro, Gherardo, Gati, Sabiha, Beasley, Ian, Clift, Paul, Cowie, Charlotte, Kenny, Antoinette, Mayet, Jamil, Oxborough, David, Patel, Kiran, Pieles, Guido, Rakhit, Dhrubo, Ramsdale, David, Shapiro, Leonard, Somauroo, John, Stuart, Graham, Varnava, Amanda, Walsh, John, Yousef, Zaheer, Tome, Maite, Papadakis, Michael, Sharma, Sanjay
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 09.08.2018
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age; Athletes; Autopsy; Black athletes; Cardiology; Cardiomyopathies - complications; Cardiomyopathies - diagnosis; Cardiomyopathy; Cause of Death; Congenital diseases; Coronary artery disease; Death; Death, Sudden, Cardiac - epidemiology; Death, Sudden, Cardiac - etiology; Defibrillators; Diagnostic Errors; Echocardiography; EKG; Electrocardiography; Female; Heart; Heart Defects, Congenital - diagnosis; Heart Defects, Congenital - epidemiology; Heart diseases; Heart Diseases - complications; Heart Diseases - diagnosis; Heart Diseases - epidemiology; Heart Diseases - mortality; Hospitals; Humans; Incidence; Investigations; Male; Mass Screening; Medical screening; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Physical Examination; Professional soccer; Secondary schools; Soccer; Student athletes; Teenagers; United Kingdom - epidemiology; United Kingdom > UK; United States > US; Minnesota
• ISSN: 0028-4793; 1533-4406
• DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1714719

A cohort of 11,168 adolescent soccer players in the United Kingdom underwent cardiac screening. Diseases associated with sudden cardiac death were identified in 42 (0.38%). The incidence of sudden cardiac death was 1 per 14,800 person-years, or 6.8 per 100,000 athletes.