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To: mewzilla

Chances are the medical protocols have not caught to reality yet, so it would be hard to tell how thorough a routine physical would have to be to find an issue that can lead to something like this. It’s like a blood test that does not test for everything.


15 posted on 08/11/2023 5:07:39 PM PDT by Bernard ("No matter where you go, there you are." (Buckaroo Banzai))
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To: Bernard

At one point in my career, I was knowledgeable about sudden cardiac death in athletes (it’s a thing). My angle was, “what testing can/should be done to identify potential sudden death in young athletes?” - and the answer then, as now, is “nothing”.

In the 1970s, when I was still doing that stuff, the most common thing a relative of a sudden cardiac death victim would say was, “But he just had a checkup!”

Lots of athletes who die suddenly have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and abnormal EKGs, but most athletes with those things don’t die.


28 posted on 08/11/2023 5:22:05 PM PDT by Jim Noble (He who saves the nation breaks no law)
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