Should Sudden Cardiac Death Of Athletes Stop Us From Exercising?

Only 1 out of 200,000 athletes per academic year had sudden cardiac death. This finding was revealed by a study conducted in the United States among high school and college athletes. Sportsmen, especially those renowned in their respective fields will certainly attract media attention and will create doubts to some people: if these super-fit individuals can die suddenly, is there any point in exercising? Nevertheless, exercising should not be taken as the real cause of the death of these athletes. Rather, they died because they had some underlying heart problem that had not been detected previously by routine medical examination. Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart muscle disorder, can be one of the many reasons that cause an athlete to die during sports. This arise View the rest of this article