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Competitive sports differ in physiological demands and collision or impact risk, requiring sport-specific classification to inform disease-specific recommendations for athletes with cardiovascular disease.
Provides a framework classifying competitive sports by physiological demands and collision/impact risk to inform management and antithrombotic therapy in athletes with cardiovascular disease.
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Enables tailored sports participation and antithrombotic decisions in athletes with CVD; extends prior classifications with collision risk data.
Competitive sports differ with regards to their physiological demands and risk of collision/impact. With the goal of informing disease-specific recommendations for athletes with cardiovascular disease, we present the sport-specific physiology inherent to the typical practice of common competitive sports. We also classify sports by collision/impact risk, which is particularly relevant to athlete antiplatelet and anticoagulant use. Finally, we discuss how sport-specific cardiovascular adaptations to exercise training manifest on athletes’ cardiovascular testing.
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Wasfy et al. (2026) studied Athletes with cardiovascular disease. Competitive sports classification by physiological demands and collision/impact risk was evaluated. Competitive sports are classified by physiological demands and collision/impact risk to guide disease-specific recommendations and antithrombotic use in athletes with cardiovascular disease.
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