Pre-participation sports screening
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Electrocardiography in pre-participation screening and current guidelines for participation in competitive sports.
Electrocardiography (ECG) is especially significant in pre-participation screening due to its ability to discover or to rise a suspicion for certain cardiovascular diseases and conditions that represent a serious health risk in athletes. Common, conditionally benign and training related ECG changes are sinus bradycardia and sinus arrhythmia, first degree atrioventricular block, incomplete right...
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عنوان ژورنال: Fizicka kultura
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0350-3828
DOI: 10.5937/fizkul1202138m