SOREN Student Sports & Health Open Researches e-Journal: New-Approaches

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La Gerche A, Heidbuchel H. The athlete’s heart: challenges and controversies. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022;79(1):96–109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jacc.2021.10.019

Lee JH, Lee SH, Kim JH, Kim HR. Genetic determinants of cardiac remodeling in elite athletes: insights from GWAS. Eur Heart J. 2022;43(4):387–95. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurheartj/ehab851

Li, Y., Zhang, X., Chen, H., Xu, J., & Wang, J. (2024). Deep learning–based radiomics analysis of echocardiographic data for arrhythmia risk prediction in athletes. European Journal of Preventive Cardiology, 31(7), 945–956. https://doi.org/10.1093/eurjpc/zwad032

Merghani A, Malhotra A, Sharma S. The U-shaped relationship between exercise and coronary atherosclerosis. J Am Heart Assoc. 2024;13(4):e028741. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.123.028741

Oxborough D, Zaidi A, Sharma S, Somauroo J, George K. British Society of Echocardiography guidelines for the assessment of the athlete’s heart. Echo Res Pract. 2025;12(1):e1–19. https://doi.org/10.1530/ERP-24-0012

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Sengupta PP, Narula J. Advanced myocardial deformation echocardiography: Application in the athlete’s heart. J Echocardiogr. 2024;21(2):145–58. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12574-023-00689-4

Sharma, S., Drezner, J. A., Baggish, A. L., & Papadakis, M. (2023). The athlete’s heart: from physiology to pathology. Nature Reviews Cardiology, 20(10), 689–705. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41569-023-00874-1

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Zholshybek, N., Khamitova, Z., Toktarbay, B., Jumadilova, D., Khissamutdinov, N., Dautov, T., Rakhmanov, Y., Bekbossynova, M., Gaipov, A., & Salustri, A. (2023). Cardiac imaging in athlete’s heart: current status and future prospects. Cardiovascular Ultrasound, 21, Article 21. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12947-023-00319-3

Zimmermann P, Düking P, Sperlich B. Electrical and structural adaptation of athlete's heart and the risk of arrhythmias. Front Physiol. 2022;13:857421. https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2022.857421

Hua J, Shaw R. Corona virus (Covid-19)“infodemic” and emerging issues through a data lens: The case of china. International journal of environmental research and public health. 2020;17(7):2309.