Around here, in WA, sports physicals look very carefully for heart issues since hidden heart defects can show up during the increased intensity of high school level sports.
In mid-2000s our pediatrician thought she “heard” something during my daughter’s sports physical. She immediately referred us to a cardiologist that we saw that same day.
The cardiologist listened to my daughter’s heart and suggested it was nothing, but just to be sure she ordered an immediate echocardiogram (ultrasound check). Turns out everything was fine.
I guess my point is that in recent decades, pediatricians really take a close look at kids’ heart function during sports physicals, so seeing young athletes that are required to have annual sports physicals die unexpectedly is very troubling.
Those sport doctors are conscientious. Our ‘leaders’ are less so.