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Electrical and structural adaptations of the paediatric athlete’s heart: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Overview of attention for article published in British Journal of Sports Medicine, March 2017
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Title
Electrical and structural adaptations of the paediatric athlete’s heart: a systematic review with meta-analysis
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British Journal of Sports Medicine, March 2017
DOI 10.1136/bjsports-2016-097052
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Gavin McClean, Nathan R Riding, Clare L Ardern, Abdulaziz Farooq, Guido E Pieles, Victoria Watt, Carmen Adamuz, Keith P George, David Oxborough, Mathew G Wilson

Abstract

To describe the electrocardiographic (ECG) and echocardiographic manifestations of the paediatric athlete's heart, and examine the impact of age, race and sex on cardiac remodelling responses to competitive sport. Systematic review with meta-analysis. Six electronic databases were searched to May 2016: MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, CINAHL and SPORTDiscus. (1) Male and/or female competitive athletes, (2) participants aged 6-18 years, (3) original research article published in English language. Data from 14 278 athletes and 1668 non-athletes were included for qualitative (43 articles) and quantitative synthesis (40 articles). Paediatric athletes demonstrated a greater prevalence of training-related and training-unrelated ECG changes than non-athletes. Athletes ≥14 years were 15.8 times more likely to have inferolateral T-wave inversion than athletes <14 years. Paediatric black athletes had significantly more training-related and training-unrelated ECG changes than Caucasian athletes. Age was a positive predictor of left ventricular (LV) internal diameter during diastole, interventricular septum thickness during diastole, relative wall thickness and LV mass. When age was accounted for, these parameters remained significantly larger in athletes than non-athletes. Paediatric black athletes presented larger posterior wall thickness during diastole (PWTd) than Caucasian athletes. Paediatric male athletes also presented larger PWTd than females. The paediatric athlete's heart undergoes significant remodelling both before and during 'maturational years'. Paediatric athletes have a greater prevalence of training related and training-unrelated ECG changes than non-athletes, with age, race and sex mediating factors on cardiac electrical and LV structural remodelling.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 1 <1%
Czechia 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 129 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 14%
Researcher 12 9%
Student > Master 11 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 10 8%
Student > Postgraduate 10 8%
Other 32 24%
Unknown 38 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 53 40%
Sports and Recreations 20 15%
Nursing and Health Professions 7 5%
Social Sciences 3 2%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 2%
Other 5 4%
Unknown 42 32%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 17. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 February 2021.
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#77
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