Does a one-size-fits-all approach to preparticipation screening account for interindividual differences in athletes?
Highlights the need for individualized preparticipation screening in athletes, accounting for factors like sporting discipline, ethnicity, and sex, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach.
Preparticipation screening is vital to exclude inherited cardiac conditions that have the potential to cause sudden cardiac death in seemingly healthy athletes. Recent research has questioned traditional theories of load-induced, dichotomous cardiac adaptation. We therefore considered whether a one-size-fits-all approach to screening can account for interindividual differences brought about by sporting discipline, training volume, ethnicity, body size, sex, and age.
Brown et al. (Fri,) studied this question.