Thread by @BrooksWalsh

A recent study found that kids (ages 9-12) often had a very high rise in troponin following an intervention that is *claimed* to be healthy.

The dotted line shows the threshold of troponin that diagnoses a heart attack!
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The intervention?
It was soccer.
(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32033112/)
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The same effect can be seen in e.g. competitive swimming! (doi.org/10.3390/ijerph…)

So... should we have kids stop swimming or kicking balls around?

Or maybe should we just be a little more careful when using troponin as an outcome?
😉
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