When young athletes die

[cptjeff]

Originally Posted by skyman

I don't think the intensity of the sport actually matters, it can come from something as mundane as walking or fishing. It is a horrible thing though. Go to your doctors and speak to them about it, they will probably give you an ECG. However there are certain traits such as bouts of dizziness, and heart palpatations that can give early warning. There is a charity in the UK can't rmember the name that is trying to raise awarness of the disease.

Sad part is you probably haven't got it if you are past you mid to early twenties.

Can, but intensity certainly comes into it.

This type of stuff, celiac disease, and coaches who think that extreme dehydration 'toughens up' athletes... It can be a bad combination. We really need to be more careful in youth athletics, high school sports ain't worth this.

 

[why]

How are celiac disease, dehydration, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy all pertinent to high school athletics?

 

[NewYorkIslander]

When I started getting serious about running I booked an appointment with my cardiologist. We did an ecco and electrocardiogram to see if I was predisposed to anything that would cause me to fall victim to this. Thankfully all was well, and my doctor told me that you'd either have to have an abnormally large heart through genetics, or through abnormally large amounts of cardio (usually the case with ultra marathon runners). But it does still worry me a bit, though not as much since I had the tests done.

 

[cptjeff]

Originally Posted by why

How are celiac disease, dehydration, and hypertrophic cardiomyopathy all pertinent to high school athletics?

Celiac disease has been responsible for a fairly large number of deaths in college and high school athletes, usually in combination with coaches who make their players run till they drop with no water allowed, or other similar methods. Which are actually very common, though not as common as they used to be. And heart problems can kill in similar situations as well.

 

[why]

Young athletes die of meningitis and car crashes too. I still don't understand how these pertain to sudden cardiac death and the effect overzealous coaching has on deaths caused by HCM.

 

[cptjeff]

Originally Posted by why

Young athletes die of meningitis and car crashes too. I still don't understand how these pertain to sudden cardiac death and the effect overzealous coaching has on deaths caused by HCM.
Because those deaths can be prevented or at least reduced simply by telling coaches to tone it down a bit. People die from old age anyway, so why should we bother to prevent secondhand smoke?

 

[why]

Originally Posted by cptjeff

Because those deaths can be prevented or at least reduced simply by telling coaches to tone it down a bit.

People die from old age anyway, so why should we bother to tell them to quit smoking?

I don't think you understand HCM or what I'm saying. HCM causes death by ventricular fibrillation, and it can just as easily happen to someone running to class as it can to someone running drills with their coach screaming at them. It occurs often in athletes because their hypertrophied ventricles disguise signs of HCM, but this has absolutely nothing to do with coaching practices. Many HCM sufferers fibrillate during low intensities.

Celiac disease and hypovolemic shock caused by dehydration have almost no pertinence at all to deaths caused by HCM. I don't understand why you're equating them. You might as well try to link deaths caused by drug overdoses to coaching practices because their athletes want to get high after a championship.

 

[greg_atlanta]

If he didn't run a marathon he may have never realized this problem. Marathons are much too intense for the majority of participants. The weepy, feel-good sense of accomplishment --usually brought on by a mid-life crisis -- gets way too much encouragement these days.