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When do athletes benefit from cardiac genetic testing?
Genetic testing has had a major impact in many areas of medicine, including sports cardiology. Here we discuss cardiac genetic testing not as a screening tool but rather as an evidence-based follow-up test in an athlete with an abnormal ECG or medical history to identify those athletes who have a potentially life-threatening cardiac genetic disorder.
© Copyright 2020 British Journal of Sports Medicine. BMJ Publishing Group Ltd of the BMA. All rights reserved.
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| Notations: | biological and medical sciences |
| Published in: | British Journal of Sports Medicine |
| Language: | English |
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2020
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| Volume: | 54 |
| Issue: | 15 |
| Pages: | 939-940 |
| Document types: | article |
| Level: | advanced |