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sherbert90
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1,008 posts
21 months
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17908737Alexander Dale Oen, Norweigian swimming champion, has died of a cardiac arrest. What is it with heart problems in sports people recently? Recently, we have had footballer Fabrice Muamba, who very nearly died. Then Italian footballer Morosini, who did die a couple of weeks ago. Then Claire Squires, a seemingly fit person running the London marathon who died last week. Just goes to show, it doesn't matter how healthy you are, if you're numbers up, it's up  .
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khushy
3,383 posts
88 months
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maybe its all the new drugs they take?!?!?!?
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Greg66
1,525 posts
47 months
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Entirely possible this happens a lot more than people realise. It's getting reported at the moment though precisely because of the deaths you mention. In a few weeks/months normal service will resume.
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carmonk
7,910 posts
56 months
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Flavour of the month. Newsreaders with epilepsy then athletes with heart problems. It's manufactured news.
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goldblum
6,751 posts
36 months
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Some genetic heart conditions can easily be missed during health screening anyway,but since 1982 all Italian professional and amateur athletes have to have electrocardiograms and the death rate has dropped by 89% compared with the rest of the population (U.Of Padua,2006).
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sherbert90
Original Poster
1,008 posts
21 months
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carmonk said: Flavour of the month. Newsreaders with epilepsy then athletes with heart problems. It's manufactured news. I'd hardly call it 'manufactured news' these people have died. Some press coverage may over hype it, but the fact remains.
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garyhun
13,987 posts
97 months
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It would be interesting to understand the numbers this year in relation to previous years.
Is this a strange bump in the stats or what is normally expected?
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carmonk
7,910 posts
56 months
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sherbert90 said: carmonk said: Flavour of the month. Newsreaders with epilepsy then athletes with heart problems. It's manufactured news. I'd hardly call it 'manufactured news' these people have died. Some press coverage may over hype it, but the fact remains. Atheletes die every day. This batch started because a footballer had a heart attack in the middle of a game, which is unusual for obvious reasons. Then the bandwagon kept rolling and we're hearing perfectly commonplace events being reported as suddenly newsworthy.
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goldblum
6,751 posts
36 months
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garyhun said: It would be interesting to understand the numbers this year in relation to previous years.
Is this a strange bump in the stats or what is normally expected? http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1272/is_2670_129/ai_72272603/ For more comprehensive statistics you'll want a journal like the International Journal of Cardiology this is not free but the abstracts are.. http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescriptio...
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Hoofy
47,889 posts
151 months
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Last time I'm doing HIIT!
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ApexJimi
8,103 posts
112 months
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Hoofy said: Last time I'm doing HIIT! Any excuse 
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garyhun
13,987 posts
97 months
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Hoofy said: Last time I'm doing HIIT! I was this morning!!!!!!!!!!
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ewenm
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114 months
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goldblum
6,751 posts
36 months
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garyhun said: Hoofy said: Last time I'm doing HIIT! I was this morning!!!!!!!!!! Lol,unless there's a history of heart disease in the family you'll be OK.If there is then get checked.Anyway,and I don't mean anything by this,but those unfortunates who died because of undiagnosed heart disease well,...y'know...they were doing proper exercise. 
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ApexJimi
8,103 posts
112 months
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In seriousness, I often think about this.
My mother has an extra heartbeat (heart murmur?)
My grandfather, from my Dad's side had a tripple heart bypass, and my grandmother, also from my Dad's side, had angina in the latter stages of her life.
Both my grandmother's died from ovarian cancer, and various other family members have died from cancer too.
It's not looking good for me, is it?!
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goldblum
6,751 posts
36 months
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I'm not sure but I think you can get a free heartscan off the NHS if you're over 45 and display 2 or more risk factors for heart disease.
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garyhun
13,987 posts
97 months
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goldblum said: Lol,unless there's a history of heart disease in the family you'll be OK.If there is then get checked.Anyway,and I don't mean anything by this,but those unfortunates who died because of undiagnosed heart disease well,...y'know...they were doing proper exercise. Hey, I get slightly breathless
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Hoofy
47,889 posts
151 months
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ApexJimi said: Hoofy said: Last time I'm doing HIIT! Any excuse S'me!
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Hoofy
47,889 posts
151 months
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garyhun said: goldblum said: Lol,unless there's a history of heart disease in the family you'll be OK.If there is then get checked.Anyway,and I don't mean anything by this,but those unfortunates who died because of undiagnosed heart disease well,...y'know...they were doing proper exercise. Hey, I get slightly breathless They may well have been doing proper exercise but should we risk it if it may also affect those doing improper exercise?
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goldblum
6,751 posts
36 months
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Hoofy said: garyhun said: goldblum said: Lol,unless there's a history of heart disease in the family you'll be OK.If there is then get checked.Anyway,and I don't mean anything by this,but those unfortunates who died because of undiagnosed heart disease well,...y'know...they were doing proper exercise. Hey, I get slightly breathless They may well have been doing proper exercise but should we risk it if it may also affect those doing improper exercise? *sigh*
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