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EUROPACE
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 147-+Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/europace/euaa106
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Sports; eligibility; ventricular arrhythmias; pacemakers; implantable defibrillators
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This paper is part of a series of recommendation documents by the EAPC for participation in leisure-time physical activity and competitive sports, focusing on individuals with ventricular rhythm disorders, inherited arrhythmogenic conditions, or implanted devices. Collaborating with EHRA, the documents evaluate eligibility for sports based on prognostic risk, symptomatic impact, and potential progression of underlying structural problems.
This paper belongs to a series of recommendation documents for participation in leisure-time physical activity and competitive sports by the European Association of Preventive Cardiology (EAPC). Together with an accompanying paper on supraventricular arrhythmias, this second text deals specifically with those participants in whom some form of ventricular rhythm disorder is documented, who are diagnosed with an inherited arrhythmogenic condition, and/or who have an implanted pacemaker or cardioverter defibrillator. A companion text on recommendations in athletes with supraventricular arrhythmias is published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology. Since both texts focus on arrhythmias, they are the result of a collaboration between EAPC and the European Heart Rhythm Association (EHRA). The documents provide a framework for evaluating eligibility to perform sports, based on three elements, i.e. the prognostic risk of the arrhythmias when performing sports, the symptomatic impact of arrhythmias while performing sports, and the potential progression of underlying structural problems as the result of sports.
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