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Commentary on "Natural and traumatic sports-related fatalities: a 10-year retrospective study"
Correspondence to:
K-M Braumann, University of Hamburg, Dept of Sports Medicine, Hamburg, Germany; braumann@uni-hamburg.de
Natural and traumatic sports-related fatalities: a 10-year retrospective study
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This is an interesting paper that deals with an important issue in sports medicine and gives, at least partly, answers to the frequently asked questions about the hazardousness of sports. Using an impressive number of nearly 50 000 fatalities subjected to police investigations in the city of Hamburg, the authors show, fortunately from the sports medicine point of view, that the number of sports-related deaths amounted to only 0.36%. Underlying the traumatic reasons for accidents that occurred during sports activities, the authors found "natural causes" to be the reason for 57% of these fatalities. In most cases, these were due to known or unknown heart diseases. It is suggested that such conditions could be detected to a great extent by preparticipation medical screening, although there is of course no guarantee of 100% safety. The data presented are important in the discussion about the benefits and risks of physical activity and
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