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Does sports activity enhance the risk of sudden death in adolescents and young adults?

Domenico Corrado, MD, PhD^*, Cristina Basso, MD, PhD, Giulio Rizzoli, MD, Maurizio Schiavon, MD and Gaetano Thiene, MD^,*

^* Department of Cardiology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Department of Pathology, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Padua, Padua, Italy
Center for Sports Medicine, Padua, Italy

View larger version (13K): [in a new window]   Figure 1 Incidence and relative risk (RR) of sudden death (SD) among athletes (solid columns) and non-athletes (open columns) from cardiovascular and non-cardiovascular causes. Athletes had a 2.8 RR of cardiovascular SD (confidence interval [CI] 1.9 to 3.7; p < 0.001), as compared with a 1.7 RR of non-cardiovascular SD (CI 0.3 to 5.7; p = 0.39).

View larger version (16K): [in a new window]   Figure 2 Incidence and relative risk (RR) of sudden death (SD) for specific cardiovascular causes among athletes and non-athletes. ARVC = arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; CAD = coronary artery disease; CCA = congenital coronary artery anomaly; MVP = mitral valve prolapse.