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BOSTON - Clinicians are often asked to assess competitive athletes with cardiovascular symptoms and to screen asymptomatic athletes for hidden heart problems. This is especially common with soccer, the world s most popular sport. To provide guidance, a team led by investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) conducted a study to determine what should be considered normal heart scan results in elite female and male soccer players. The findings are published in
When evaluating athletes, it s important for physicians to differentiate between normal exercise-induced cardiovascular adaptations and abnormal responses that are detrimental to health. Knowing the difference requires analyses of sport- and sex-specific data. To this end, researchers examined cardiovascular data from 122 female and 116 male athletes from screenings overseen by Aaron Baggish, MD, director of the Cardiovascular Performance Program at MGH and chief cardiologist for U.S. Soccer, at U.S. Soccer