Sudden deaths of young athletes directly during a match or performance still raise many questions. For example, last week a 17-year-old girl died in Slovakia during a football match. The death of the twenty-four-year-old hockey player Boris Sádecky is also vividly remembered by their eastern neighbors. The website tvnoviny.sk writes about what can be behind the unexpected deaths of young people.
Not only hockey fans remember the collapse of Slovak hockey player Boris Sádecky, who played for the now defunct club iClinic Bratislava Capitals. After a five-day battle in the hospital, the 24-year-old athlete died.
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Last week, a similar tragedy occurred in the eastern neighbors. During a school football match in Dunajská Streda, 17-year-old Lili fainted and never woke up. She too succumbed to the collapse after a few days.
Court expert Peter Kováč, however, reminds us that despite these tragic cases, people who engage in sports live five to seven years longer on average. “In the case of a latent disease that may not manifest itself clinically, sudden cardiac arrest can occur,” he warned at the same time for the tvnoviny.sk website.
Prevention can be time-consuming and expensive genetic tests. “However, the vast majority are healthy individuals. Capturing such a disposition is therefore highly unlikely,” said sports traumatologist Ján Grauzel.
Deceased athletes usually have congenital heart diseases. These, according to Grauzel, may not even be picked up by “standard EKG examinations or stress tests.”
Although it may seem that the number of tragic deaths of young people during sports performance is increasing dramatically, the statistics say otherwise. While among adult athletes it is one case per ten thousand people, for young people and children this ratio is even 1:200,000.
“These deceased may have previously suffered from repeated loss of consciousness, but no one paid much attention to it. These problems may have passed,” added Grauzel.
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