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SCREEN ATHLETES? “Doctors recommend cardiac screening tests for competitive athletes who have recovered from #Covid19 after a small study found heart damage in 1 in 7 college sports competitors, including in those whose infection caused no symptoms”. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-09-11/heart-injury-after-covid-spurs-call-to-screen-college-athletes
2) “Myocarditis is a significant cause of sudden cardiac death in competitive athletes,” Saurabh Rajpal, an assistant professor wrote. “Cardiac MRI has potential to identify a high-risk cohort for adverse outcomes and may risk-stratify athletes for safe participation.”
3) “Evidence of myocardial inflammation seen on cardiac MRI scans has been associated “with poor outcomes, including myocardial dysfunction and mortality”. Athletes with probable myocarditis should be asked to rest for three months to recover, based on current guidelines
4) “Covid-19 may also result in impaired fitness and lung injury in younger people, researchers investigating an outbreak at a Swiss Armed Forces base in March reported Thursday...
5) ...They noted a “significant decrease” in aerobic capacity among recruits who had mild Covid-19 about six weeks earlier, compared with those who had either an asymptomatic infection or no SARS-CoV-2 infection.
