CRY research continues to underline the importance of cardiac screening for athletes After a successful three days at the BCS Annual Conference (June 6 – 8 2016), where the team from Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) really was at the “heart” of the debate about the benefits of proactive cardiac screening, – CRY is also pleased
Published papers conclude that sudden arrhythmic death (SADS) is more common ‘at rest’ or whilst sleeping than during excessive exercise Researchers funded by the charity, Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) have today [16 December 2014] published new research in the journal, “Circulation: Arrhythmia & Electrophysiology”1 highlighting that more than 80% of cases of young sudden
Nathan R Riding, Nabeel Sheikh, Carmen Adamuz, Victoria Watt, Abdulaziz Farooq, Gregory P Whyte, Keith P George, Jonathan A Drezner, Sanjay Sharma, Mathew G Wilson Comparison of three current sets of electrocardiographic interpretation criteria for use in screening athletes Heart Online – December 2014 [Full text]
Sanjay Sharma, Ahmed Merghani, Sabiha Gati Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), November 2014 Click here to view the article
Dr Nabeel Sheikh talk from the European Society of Cardiology Conference 2014. Interpretation of Repolarisation Changes on a Young Athlete’s ECG.
09:00 Introduction Prof Sanjay Sharma 09:10 QT-interval in young athletic individuals; The long and short of it Prof Francois Carre (France) 09:30 Right ventricular enlargement in athletes; Physiology vs. Pathology Dr Abbas Zaidi 09:50 Early repolarisation; Training related or marker of heart disease? Dr Greg Mellor 10:10 The veteran athlete’s heart; Unravelling the mystery of chronic,
18th – 20th April 2013 We are delighted to report that CRY Research Fellow Dr Sabiha Gati won the Judges’ Choice award at the EuroPRevent 2013 conference in Rome, for her poster “The Prevalence and Significance of Aortic Root Dilatation in Highly Trained British Athletes”.
The Pete Hinchliffe Travel Award for Medics 2012 was awarded to Dr Abbas Zaidi. He was awarded the prize in 2013, in recognition of being the most outstanding CRY Research Fellow throughout 2012. The award provides a grant of £1,000 to allow Dr Zaidi to travel to international conferences to showcase his research findings and learn
CRY Research Fellow, Dr Sabiha Gati, had the article ‘Should axis deviation or atrial enlargement be categorised as abnormal in young athletes? The athlete’s electrocardiogram: time for re-appraisal of markers of pathology.’ published in the European Heart Journal (September 2013). [Abstract here] CRY Communications Officer, Mair Shepherd, caught up with her to find out more about
Published paper is ‘Editor’s Pick’ in April 30th issue of Circulation; and underlines the need for expert screening and diagnosis to prevent unnecessary disqualification of elite athletes. Researchers funded by CRY have published new research in one of the world’s leading cardiology journals, ‘Circulation’, which highlights the importance of expertise when conducting cardiac screening, because of