Paolo D'Ambrosio

Another piece of the Atrial Fibrillation in endurance athletes puzzle 🏃🫀🧩 Study: 89 athletes with paroxysmal AF vs. 89 age/sex-matched controls. Key findings: - AF athletes have higher resting SBP - No difference in exercise BP response academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advance…

Resting bradycardia and brief pauses are common and well-tolerated in endurance athletes. Fitness and genetics both shape sinus node function, and HR-polygenic risk score differences hint that genetics may help determine athleticism.ahajrnls.org/44CKDot

🧵1/ 🫀 Big left atrium: athlete’s heart or early disease? In our new EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging paper, we introduce the LA:LV ratio to distinguish adaptive vs. maladaptive remodeling. ~0.5 = physiological ≥0.75 = suspect pathology 👉 doi.org/10.1093/ehjci/… #SportsCardiology

Atrial fibrillation in former world-class rowers: role of environmental and genetic factors academic.oup.com/eurheartj/adva… #atrialfibrillation #athlete #genomics #Sportscardiology

Female athletes show lower rates of #AFib and NSVT, likely tied to smaller chamber sizes and less cardiomyocyte hypertrophy, with other factors at play. Similar ectopy rates suggest the risk gap stems more from substrate differences than triggers. jacc.org/doi/10.1016/j.… #JACCCEP

Ventricular arrhythmias in association with athletic cardiac remodelling academic.oup.com/europace/artic… #ventriculararrhythmia #athlete #SportsCardiology

Arrhythmias and structural remodeling in lifelong and retired master endurance athletes doi.org/10.1016/j.jshs…