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Incidence of Cardiac Pathology Post-COVID in Pro Athletes < 1% - Medscape

In a cohort of almost 800 professional athletes with previous COVID infection, routine return-to-play screening showed signs of inflammatory heart disease in only…

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Routine return-to-play (RTP) cardiac screening of professional athletes with previous COVID-19 infection shows less than 1% ultimately had signs of cardiac inflammation, a new study reports.
In this cohort of 789 professional athletes post-COVID infection, abnormal cardiac screening results were seen in 30 (3.8%), necessitating further testing that showed signs of cardiac inflammation in only five…

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