Electrocardiographic Findings in Female Professional Basketball Athletes.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Previous studies of professional basketball athletes have characterized manifestations of athletic remodeling by echocardiography and electrocardiography (ECG) in males and echocardiography in females. There is a paucity of female, basketball-specific ECG data.

Objective

To generate reference range ECG data for female professional basketball athletes.

Design, setting, and participants

This is a cross-sectional study of ECGs performed on female professional basketball athletes. The Women's National Basketball Association mandates annual preseason ECGs and echocardiograms for each athlete and has partnered with Columbia University Irving Medical Center to annually review these studies. Data for this study were collected during preseason ECG and echocardiograp

SUBMITTER: Lander BS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10955342 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature