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The European Society of Cardiology has played a foundational role in the history and development of sports cardiology since the establishment of its first Working Group in 1982.
This text provides a brief historical overview of the development of sports cardiology within the European Society of Cardiology.
The field of sports cardiology has a long history within the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), being a topic of the first Working Group (WG1: Exercise physiology, physiopathology and stress testing). It was founded in 1982, the first chairmen being Bruno Caru from Italy and Henry Detry from Belgium, with the strong support of former ESC president Henry Denolin. With Italian colleagues, A. Venerando and V. Rulli, WG1 organized a meeting on sports cardiology for the first time in Fiuggi Terme (Italy) in 1984. From 1994, WG1 also included the WG of Rehabilitation, and kept an increasing interest in sports cardiology within the symposia organized in the annual spring meetings.
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Björnstad et al. (2006) conducted a review in Sudden death in young athletes. The European Society of Cardiology has played a foundational role in the history and development of sports cardiology since the establishment of its first Working Group in 1982.
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