Vital signs: exercise: frontiers in the heart of screenings for young people

Screening young athletes with Electrocardiograms for the prevention of sudden cardiac death ineffective, may be a new study has found. It turns out, also Pediatric cardiologists often not the tests correctly interpret.

Researchers at Stanford University selected underlying 18 ECG, 8 anomalies of patients with normal heart and 10 patients with one of the six different, the often sudden cardiac death. The scientists showed the ECG to 53 experienced paediatric cardiologists, whether she could make the right diagnosis properly restrict or allow sports activity and order appropriate follow-up audits. The correct diagnosis and recommendations based on the report by two Electrophysiologists, cardiologists specialized in the interpretation of the ECG.

Properly, only 68 percent of really abnormal cases identified the cardiologist - 32 per cent of young people with abnormal ECG were never found. And the cases that identify doctors as abnormal, 30 percent were in fact normal.

"One of the most remarkable discoveries was the inability of the cardiologists give correct sport," said Dr. Anne M. Dubin, Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Stanford University and author of the new study lead. Should be 26 percent of patients who were allowed to exercise were not, and 19 percent of patients who should have restricted were not, she noticed.

The report appeared of Pediatrics online on Thursday in the journal. Dr. Dubin received scholarship support from Medtronic Inc., a manufacturer of medical equipment.

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