A comprehensive electrocardiographic analysis for young athletes

ECG-based differences between athletes and sedentary adolescents are a frequently investigated subject in sports medicine. Especially, training-induced ECG variations are common in adult athletes and sustained training often leads to anatomical changes in the heart that can yield abnormalities in EC...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published in:Medical & biological engineering & computing 2021-09, Vol.59 (9), p.1865-1876
Main Authors: Yanık, Hüseyin, Değirmenci, Evren, Büyükakıllı, Belgin
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abnormalities
Adaptive algorithms
Adolescents
Amplitudes
Athletes
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering
Biomedicine
Computer Applications
Correlation analysis
EKG
Gender
Heart rate
Human Physiology
Imaging
Long QT syndrome
Males
Original Article
Parameters
Prolongation
Radiology
Sedentary behavior
Sports medicine
Training
Wavelet transforms
Citations: Items that this one cites
Items that cite this one
Online Access:Get full text
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Summary:ECG-based differences between athletes and sedentary adolescents are a frequently investigated subject in sports medicine. Especially, training-induced ECG variations are common in adult athletes and sustained training often leads to anatomical changes in the heart that can yield abnormalities in ECG. Therefore, ECG screening in athletes is important in diagnosis of cardiac problems of young athletes. The present work investigated the ECG characteristics of young athletes in terms of both gender and sedentary healthy young control group differences. Besides comparison between groups, analysis parameters were also investigated within the groups using correlation analysis. ECG characteristics were extracted using wavelet transform–based adaptive algorithms. Results showed that ECGs of athletes demonstrate differences related to gender and compared to young sedentary. Athletes had significantly lower heart rate; higher QTc, P, and T amplitudes; ST segment; and ST, QT, and RR intervals compared to control group (p 
ISSN:0140-0118
1741-0444
DOI:10.1007/s11517-021-02401-2