DOCTORS in Australia are developing the country’s first SADS registry after an increase in healthy young people dying from Sudden Adult Death Syndrome.
Heart conditions can go undetected when the person is otherwise healthy. Stories pop up all the time where a student athlete, perhaps a football player or track runner, randomly has a heart attack on the field and dies. For example they may have had an abnormally large heart which can cause electrical problems leading to possibly fatal arrhythmia if no one has a defibrillator. This sort of problem would be easily detected on an echocardiogram, but sadly not everyone has one done if there isn't a prior need.
This article doesn't say (unless I missed it?) that they experienced a sudden uptick in such cases, but if so then it would be a good idea to explore the connection with covid.
I would get screened every year in my teenage years due to family history, and every year the results come back good, ie normal. But even now my paranoid ass might feel a skipped beat and just assume that's the end for me :stress:
Heart conditions can go undetected when the person is otherwise healthy. Stories pop up all the time where a student athlete, perhaps a football player or track runner, randomly has a heart attack on the field and dies. For example they may have had an abnormally large heart which can cause electrical problems leading to possibly fatal arrhythmia if no one has a defibrillator. This sort of problem would be easily detected on an echocardiogram, but sadly not everyone has one done if there isn't a prior need.
This article doesn't say (unless I missed it?) that they experienced a sudden uptick in such cases, but if so then it would be a good idea to explore the connection with covid.
The hypochondriac part of me reading this comment right now is like :scared:
I mean nothing I haven't heard before, but yeah
I would get screened every year in my teenage years due to family history, and every year the results come back good, ie normal. But even now my paranoid ass might feel a skipped beat and just assume that's the end for me :stress: