Shared Decision-Making Critical for Athletic Participation by Patients With Heart Disease

^{Rachel J. Lampert, MD, from Yale Univeristy School of Medicine, said decision-making about atheltic participation by patients with heart disease has become more individualized as risks have become better understood.

Source: John Curtis/Yale Medicine Office of Communications. Reprinted with permission.}

Cardiology Today, November 2017

Dr. Rachel Lampert, who is conducting the LIVE-LQTS Study believes that shared decision making is critical for athletic participation by patients with heart disease. This concept is a major focus in an October paper in Circulation by Rachel J. Lampert, MD, Michael J. Ackerman, MD, PhD, and Aaron L. Baggish, MD.

Research studies such as the LIVE LQTS Study are essential in order to find out more about how to exercise safely with inherited heart conditions. If you have LQTS and have not yet signed up for this important study, now is the time! Our goal is to have 2,000 LQTS patients enrolled – we are over halfway there, and only need 600 more participants. Sign up today! (https://www.sads.org/research/Studies/LIVE-LQTS) For the full article, click here.

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- Fainting or seizure during exercise, excitement or startle.
- Consistent or unusual chest pain &/or shortness of breath during exercise.

Shared Decision-Making Critical for Athletic Participation by Patients With Heart Disease

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