BBC’s radio news bulletin today made sure to emphasise “hereditary”:
11 Oct: BBC: Enock Mwepu: Brighton midfielder forced to retire with heart condition
Brighton midfielder Enock Mwepu has been forced to retire from football at the age of 24 because of a hereditary heart condition.
The Premier League club said Mwepu would be at an “extremely high risk of suffering a potentially fatal cardiac event” if he continued playing...
“These tests have concluded that his illness is due to a hereditary cardiac condition, which manifests later in life and was not previously evident on regular cardiac screening,” Brighton said in a statement.
“Sadly, this can be exacerbated by playing sport so Enock has been advised that the only option, for the sake of his own safety, is for him to stop playing football.”...
https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/63200049
it’s only a day or so since I heard some lengthy radio piece on sports people being susceptible to something they call “hypertrophic cardiomyopathy”....which they suggested could explain all the athletes dying post covid vax.
Except that Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy is a condition in which the heart becomes thickened without an obvious cause, but they know what's causing this.