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...happens all too often; every three days to be exact. In the middle of throwing a curveball or catching a pass, a young athlete dies of sudden cardiac arrest - an abrupt loss of heart function that affects more than 400,000 people in the U.S. and is the leading cause of death in competitive athletes...
...years, the medical community has thought that only about 20 fatal cases of sudden cardiac arrest occurred each year in the U.S. among young athletes. But new research presented in November 2006 by Dr. Barry Maron, director of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Center at the Minneapolis Heart Institute Foundation, at the American Heart Association conference shows that the number of deaths among those athletes under 35 is nearly six times higher. "This is still an underestimate," Maron says. "It is real public health problem." And those are just the cases we know about: the ones that are picked up by local...
...disease itself is as mysterious as its incidence. Unlike many heart problems indicated by symptoms or murmurs, the conditions that cause sudden cardiac arrest usually do not show up during a physical or an athletic screening. That was certainly the case for Davis Nwankwo, a basketball player from Vanderbilt University who collapsed suddenly last year during practice and was found later to have hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a condition that causes the heart muscles to thicken. "There were no warning signs at all," says Michael Meyer, an athletic trainer who saved Nwankwo's life using an automatic external defibrillator (AED), a portable...
...little shaken, he finally established that about a month earlier he was standing in his office, having just come up a flight of stairs, when he felt a sudden pain and a bit of a pop in his right calf. The calf was sore and it made him limp so he went to a commercial chain's urgent care center nearby (a "doc-in-the-box" in hospitalese) and thus began his saga. The story made me groan...
...caress... CH: The make-out session... LB: But through words, because we have to be held apart and that’s what’s so exciting about it. CH: Once you really take the time to memorize the words and the big monologues, all of a sudden, you’re saying it for the fourth time and it clicks. Suddenly, [you realize] this is what he means, and you say, “That is so hot!” If this is a very personal experience, half the time I found myself saying...