What did heart screening find after COVID-19? In young athletes screened in 2020, heart involvement was uncommon and symptoms or abnormal basic tests predicted it

Oct 27

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Early in the pandemic, concern about heart inflammation after COVID-19 led sports bodies to put strict screening in front of any return to play. Those programmes produced the best data available on a question many trained people still ask after an infection: is it safe to go back to hard sessions, and what should make someone pause?

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