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Editorial outlines competing interests regarding CRY support for athlete preparticipation screening.
CRY competing interests disclosure in screening abstract warrants clinician caution on recommendations; leaves open questions of influence in sports cardiology.
Competing interestsThe charitable organisation Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), which supports preparticipation screening in young athletes, has provided facilities, including necessary staffi ng, electrocardiography and echocardiography machines for screening many national sporting squads including rugby, tennis, boxing, swimming, athletics and football.The data from the screening programme have resulted in several publications in major peer-reviewed journals.
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Papadakis et al. (2009) conducted an editorial in Cardiovascular screening in young athletes. Preparticipation cardiovascular screening was evaluated. The abstract provides a competing interests statement regarding the charitable organization Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) and its support for preparticipation screening in young athletes.
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