Last Tuesday, the vallenato singer-songwriter Omar Geles He died due to a myocardial infarction. The 57-year-old composer was playing tennis when he began to feel severe pain in his chest and collapsed. This cause of death is relatively common among high and low performance athletes.
The ‘Raw Doctor’, a doctor who has 107 million followers on his TikTok social network profile, uploaded the video Why do people die while playing sports?in which he explained why one can die from a heart attack under these circumstances.
The health professional noted that the “cardiac death of the athlete” It can happen to anyone, to a high-performance athlete or a low-performance athlete. And by age, to athletes under 35 years of age or over that age.
Omar Geles played tennis.
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Although this cause of death can occur at any time and to any person, it is possible to prevent it, according to the specialist. For people who are going to start playing a sport, the doctor recommends having a complete medical check-up.“You don’t know structurally and functionally how the heart is, and many times, with simple studies such as an electrocardiogram, a holter scan, an echocardiogram, you can know how the heart is doing,” the doctor indicated.
Prescribed sport
In the case of people over 35 years of age, who have cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, diabetes, obesity, overweight, among others, and must take medication, the doctor explained that they can do sports, but this must be prescribed. This can prevent sudden cardiac death.
Older athletes.
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The doctor highlighted that the risk of suffering a heart attack increases if the person practices sports and is of advanced age. He gave the example of people, over 50 years old, who had never played sports, have been sedentary, consumed alcohol or other substances, and from one moment to the next they decide to be “healthy” and start playing sports. These people may be more likely to have a heart attack.
People who have high cholesterol and triglyceride levels should also be careful when doing sports because they may suffer a cardiovascular event. A medical check-up in these cases is also the most recommended.
The doctor invites people to play sports, but calls for doing so in a planned, rational, conscious manner, especially when people have underlying illnesses.
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