Review Article
Soccer and Sudden Cardiac Death in Young Competitive Athletes: A Review
Table 1
Studies reporting SCD in soccer.
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aThese results are for the most common causes of SCD for all sports, not just soccer. Also, coronary artery disease (CAD) refers to both congenital and atherosclerotic disease. While soccer was the most common sport associated with SCD this finding was not statistically significant when compared with other sports, nor was any other sport associated with a specific form of fatal cardiovascular disease [1]. bThese results are for the most common causes of SCD for all sports, not just soccer [2, 4, 6, 7]. cThese results are based on all sports in a subset of cases under the age of 30. However, the most common cause of death overall for patients of all ages in this study was CAD. In the cases SCD associated with soccer in subjects under 30, there was no predominant cause, but the causes were 3 LVH, 1 Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM), 1 CCA, and 3 undetermined [8]. |