Key result
Professional male football players show increased LA volumes vs controls, reflecting physiological cardiac remodeling.
Why the study?
Intensive physical activity leads to morphological and physiological left atrial changes, prompting assessment of mechanical and electrophysiological changes in professional football players.
Does intensive physical activity in professional male football players cause morphological and functional changes in the left atrium compared to controls?
Case-Control
Does intensive physical activity in professional male football players cause morphological and functional changes in the left atrium compared to controls?
p-value: p=< 0.001
Professional football players exhibit increased left atrial dimensions and volumes, likely as a physiological consequence of exercise-induced cardiac remodeling.
BACKGROUND: Intensive physical activity in athletes leads to considerable changes in the morphology and physiology of the left atrium through physiological, exercise-induced remodelling. AIM: This study aimed to assess the mechanical and electrophysiological changes in professional football players using electrocardiographic and echocardiographic assessment tools. METHODS: = 50, group C) as the control group. All participants underwent electrocardiographic and echocardiographic (two-dimensional and tissue Doppler) examinations. Volumetric and functional assessment of the left atrium was identified as the study's primary outcome. CONCLUSIONS: Increased diameter, maximum and minimum volumes of the left atrium, and their corresponding indexes could be demonstrated in the elite football players. The morphological and functional changes in the left atrium might be a physiological consequence of left atrial cardiac remodelling to intensive and chronic training.
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Gül et al. (2023) conducted a case-control in Professional male football players. Intensive physical activity (professional football training) vs. Control group was evaluated on Volumetric and functional assessment of the left atrium (p=< 0.001). Professional male football players demonstrated increased diameter, maximum and minimum volumes of the left atrium compared to controls (P<0.001), reflecting physiological cardiac remodelling.
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