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Is there a link between playing sport and sudden cardiac arrest?

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Shadow Of A Doubt:
So several footballers in the past few years have had heart attacks and died on the pitch while playing football, so I was wondering if the physical exertion on the heart for 90 mins might be a causal factor. Or is it just random chance?

David E.:
The combination of physical stress and steroids/HGH is a bitch on the heart.  Heart issues kill wrestlers at a pretty out of the norm rate as well.

Johnny Slick:
I don't know... random clumping also occurs. I remember there being a little spate of this happening to basketball players in the late 80s/early 90s (Hank Gathers, Reggie Lewis, former basketball player Pete Maravich) which amounted to, well, not a lot more than just dumb luck. I appreciate that this looks like a pattern but finding patterns whether they actually exist or not is what humans do.

Karyn:
Effedra did it for a lot of athletes until it got banned.  It wouldn't surprise me if there was a black market for it still.

Tatyana:
People typically have to have some sort of cardiomyopathy for this to occur.

Italy actually screens all of the athletes for these inborn errors to avoid sudden death.

They have to screen A LOT of athletes to prevent one death, but I guess they think it is worth it.

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