>>But I find it bizarre that we are seeing this phenomenon only in 2021.
If you are only seeing it in 2021, its probably because you have only been looking at it since 2021 - sudden cardiac death in young athletes has been a leading cause of death for young athletes for a long time - just because you haven’t been paying attention, doesn’t mean its new.
“ sudden cardiac death in young athletes has been a leading cause of death for young athletes for a long time - just because you haven’t been paying attention, doesn’t mean its new.”
Sudden cardiac death in athletes is not new, but it is NOT common. It typically occurs at a rate of 4-6 per year.
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“Dr. Josh Guetzkow, a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and the Institute of Criminology at the Hebrew University, analyzed the data. “An article published in the British Medical Journal shows that the risk of SCD is one in 50,000 (with a range from one in 30,000 to one in 80,000),” he explains. “According to FIFA data, in 2000 there were 242,000 athletes registered in the association, and in 2006 there were 265,000 athletes registered. Assuming FIFA has not changed significantly in twenty years, can expect about 5 deaths a year”.
According to Wikipedia, under “List of association footballers who died while playing”, in 2001-2020 there was an average of 4.2 deaths per year attributed to SCD or SUD, the vast majority being SCD. In contrast, in 2021, according to our list, there were 21 cases of SCD/SUD among FIFA players. In other words, instead of 4 SCD/SUD deaths per year (according to Wikipedia data), or 5 cases per year (calculated according to the BMJ) during 2001-2020, 21 players have died so far this year.”
https://stephenc.substack.com/p/5-fold-increase-in-sudden-cardiac
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This study shows about 4 deaths/year
Sudden cardiac death in the soccer field: a retrospective study in young soccer players from 2000 to 2013
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25419885/
RE: just because you haven’t been paying attention, doesn’t mean its new.
I never said it’s new ( read my posts in this thread ). I do observe that the FREQUENCY of it happening this year has increased several fold and that makes me think it’s unusual.
See the chart posted in Post #47 by a FReeper on this same thread.