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Sports medicine providers must remain vigilant in diagnosing and managing hypertension in athletes according to recently updated guidelines.
Sports medicine providers must remain vigilant in diagnosing and managing hypertension in athletes according to recently updated guidelines.
Requires vigilance for hypertension in athletes per updated guidelines; leaves open athlete-specific outcome trials.
Over the past decade, numerous studies have contributed to a growing evidence-based recommendation that the prevention, diagnosis, and management of hypertension can significantly lower cardiovascular morbidity and mortality. Several leading guidelines have been updated recently. Because hypertension is a common cardiovascular disease in athletes, sports medicine providers must remain vigilant in diagnosing this disorder and current with treatment and participation recommendations.
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O’Connor et al. (2007) conducted a review in Hypertension in athletes. Sports medicine providers must remain vigilant in diagnosing and managing hypertension in athletes according to recently updated guidelines.
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