As if the comparison to someone fighting an illness for days is comparable to an athlete dying mid-stride in a badminton game.
“As if the comparison to someone fighting an illness for days is comparable to an athlete dying mid-stride in a badminton game.”
How do you know if the badminton player did not have an underlying condition? You don’t know.
Over a 27-year period, a total of 1866 athletes with sudden death events (including 85 cardiac arrest survivors) were enrolled in the registry (Figure 1). Reports of these sudden deaths have increased at a rate of 6% per year (P<0.001; 95% CI 5.0% to 6.9%). The proportion of the 1866 events in the 13-year period from 1994 to 2006 (1290 [69%]) was significantly higher than in the 14 years from 1980 to 1993 (576 [31%], P<0.001). The proportion of all deaths reported in female athletes has increased over time (P<0.0001; 95% CI 1.4 to 2.3), reaching 13% in 2000 to 2006; age at death showed no trend for change over time (P=0.81). Deaths were reported from all 50 states and the District of Columbia and were most common in states with large populations: California (n=181), Texas (n=116), Florida (n=115), and New York (n=113).
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.108.804617
A 2018 reviewTrusted Source determined that sports-related deaths are majorly due to coronary artery disease in adults and cardiomyopathy or arrhythmia in youths.
https://www.healthline.com/health/athletes-dying-of-heart-attacks#causes