1. Left atrial enlargement in competitive athletes and atrial electrophysiology
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Alejandro de la Rosa, Cristian Herrera, Alejandro Lucia, Manuel Martínez-Sellés, Juan Lacalzada-Almeida, Agustí Comella, Leonel Diaz-Gonzalez, Vanesa Bruña, Antonio Bayés-de-Luna, Araceli Boraita, and Martín Ruiz-Ortiz
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Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Bloqueo interauricular ,Competitive athletes ,Electrofisiología ,Electrocardiography ,Young Adult ,Función del atrio izquierdo ,Atleta ,Internal medicine ,Atrial Fibrillation ,medicine ,Left atrial enlargement ,Humans ,Interatrial Block ,Heart Atria ,Atrial electrophysiology ,Sistema cardiovascular ,Aged ,Body surface area ,biology ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,Athletes ,business.industry ,Mean age ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,Cardiology ,Cardiac Electrophysiology ,business - Abstract
Introduction and objectives: There are scarce data on left atrial (LA) enlargement and electrophysiological features in athletes. Methods: Multicenter observational study in competitive athletes and controls. LA enlargement was defined as LA volume indexed to body surface area ≥ 34mL/m2. We analyzed its relationship with atrial electrocardiography parameters. Results: We included 356 participants, 308 athletes (mean age: 36.4±11.6 years) and 48 controls (mean age: 49.3±16.1 years). Compared with controls, athletes had a higher mean LA volume index (29.8±8.6 vs 25.6±8.0mL/m2, P=.006) and a higher prevalence of LA enlargement (113 [36.7%] vs 5 [10.4%], P
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- 2022