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The study emphasizes the need for cardiovascular disease screening to become routine for youth sports since approximately 10 - 12 million youth are involved in athletics at some level. "Unfortunately, the pre-participation history and physical examination lacks sensitivity for predicting the risk for SCD. But it's unclear if adding an ECG will have as significant an impact on rate of SCD in US athletes as it has in Italy. At this stage, we don't have the national resources to deal with mandated ECG administration, interpretation and follow up testing that would be required. It's still a highly controversial area in athlete screening. " said Day.

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