Sudden Cardiac Arrests More In Older Sportsmen
Sudden deaths due to cardiac arrests on the playing field have been affecting the young players as well as the elderly. The recent happening of sudden deaths wherein former Japanese defender Naoki Matsuda collapsed while undergoing training and that of a young basketball player in the US, who collapsed all of a sudden after sinking the game winning ball, are cases of sports related cardiac arrests.
A study by Eloi Marijon and his colleagues from the Paris Cardiovascular Research Center, has researched on 820 cases on sports related sudden deaths over 5 years. Of these 50 cases of sudden death occurred in the athletes aged 10 to 35 years. 9 out of 10 cardiac arrests happened during running or biking. The rest happened in the range of 35 to 65 years. Out of the 820 cases, 253 sportsmen made it to the hospital alive and 128 of them finally lived to see the day.