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The secrets behind the decline in college athlete cardiac arrest deaths, addressing disparities and emphasizing the vital role of defibrillator access and EKG screening in enhancing athlete safety.

Annals of internal medicine, by a u.s. task force, it came out this week and basically what they are saying is you are asymptomatic and have no symptoms, no chest pain or cardiac issues and are at a low risk, meaning you dont have diabetes or high blood pressure you dont need ekgs every year and so you dont need to be screened and the reason is because sometimes, we may be overdoing it. and we may be getting too many ekgs and we find things that can lead to cardiac problems and other things and ...

Because you want to compare any abnormal ekg in the future with a baseline and see what has changed. that is really important. if you are at moderate risk or high risk, if you have diabetes, high blood pressure, make sure you get the ekg and also get stress tested. but, it is a discussion between you and your cardiologist and marc will make more comments about that. >> i agree with everything he said, i need a baseline over the age of 30 to determine whether you need -- if you have a problem lat...

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