AN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC STUDY COMPARING MALE SWEDISH ELITE ORIENTEERS WITH OTHER ELITE ENDURANCE ATHLETES

Authors
HENRIKSEN E LANDELIUS J WESSLEN L KANGRO T JONASON T NYSTROMROSANDER C NIKLASSON U ARNELL H ROLF C HAMMARSTROM E LIDELL C RINGQVIST I FRIMAN G
Citation
E. Henriksen et al., AN ECHOCARDIOGRAPHIC STUDY COMPARING MALE SWEDISH ELITE ORIENTEERS WITH OTHER ELITE ENDURANCE ATHLETES, The American journal of cardiology, 79(4), 1997, pp. 521
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
The American journal of cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
00029149
Volume
79
Issue
4
Year of publication
1997
Database
ISI
SICI code
0002-9149(1997)79:4<521:AESCMS>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Between 1979 and 1992, there were 16 known cases of sudden unexpected cardiac death among young Swedish orienteers, whose autopsies showed m yocarditis to be a common finding. Therefore, 96 elite orienteers and 47 controls underwent echocardiography, showing left ventricular wall motion abnormalities in 9% of the orienteers compared with 4% in the c ontrols.