I'm going to guess that this has been posted because of a report I heard about yesterday, alongside a claim that corroborative research is being suppressed, by the researchers themselves, because they're worried about losing funding from drug companies.
If true, it's worrying. As ever, best to keep one's powder dry and wait for more data to come in. I haven't seen the initial report yet.
There's a selection bias at play here that one would be remiss to simply ignore -- elite athletes are likely on gear, the cardiovascular disease is probably due to misuse of said gear for a large part of these deaths.
There's recently been a swathe of deaths in the fitness industry but in that space it's clearer to see, every other guy is on TRT and half of them at least admit it. There's a running strain of Roganism as well, that healthy people don't need the vaccine and the elite athletes might suffer in some unknown way from it.
With the small numbers talked about it’s probably just a statistical blip combined with these people having a high public profile. As the article notes whilst it’s rare it does happen.
For example in this same period as these footballers I had a heart attack whilst exercising. Whilst at 39 I’m older it’s still very young. I am also pretty fit and have no obvious physical heart problems. So right now the doctors think I just got unlucky. No steroid or drug use on my part either. This was also prior to getting vaccinated and contracting Covid.
While what you say is definitely likely, hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) seems to be associated with professional soccer player status, and is believed to be responsible for some part of those sudden deaths in players.
But they would not have suddenly started drug abuse in 2021.
The reason this is catching attention is that there's a big jump in the number of athletes suddenly collapsing or retiring from sports due to cardiac issues. The number I've seen is 6x, which was based on comparing verified reports so far this year with an academic paper from the early 2000s that provided baseline numbers. 6x is a lot.
I heard about that too but I also know that one of those players was definitely not vaccinated (the one at Wigan, if I recall correctly?) so that undermines the link somewhat.
I mean, it could be a coincidental cluster, it could be that footballers are reaching a limit in terms of fitness that we'll now see more of this, it could be… anything. Again, more investigation is needed.
As to the link between increased heart problems, like the doctor in the link I shared, I've previously argued that it could be due to lockdown, things like people staying away from hospitals, getting access to doctors, sitting at home too much etc. I'm also keeping in mind that, as we're always reminded, these type of events occur more due to COVID-19 than the vaccines, so it's possible that the vaccines are producing cardiac problems that the disease would've produced but the vaccine came first.
Basically, I can see a lot of possibilities and want to keep an open mind, and I certainly don't want to get into either of the politically driven sides that have formed around this virus.
The first funeral I ever attended was the older brother of one of my childhood friends who died suddenly of heart failure in his 20s. He was healthy and athletic, with no known drug habits.
I've seen multiple posts about young adult heart failure being passed around in anti-vax forums. "This never happens! They just got the vaccine!", and all I can do is shake my head. The best part is sometimes people post pictures of a young adult who passed away from heart failure in spring of 2019 and try to blame mRNA vaccines still.
This happened to my best friend-- she was in her early 30ish, she was mildly overweight. She collapsed in her grad school class and was dead almost immediately from what I understand.
Because of her age an autopsy was required-- which couldn't find any reason for the death other than it was a cardiac event.
> In the time interval 1979–1998, 273 consecutive cases of SCD in young people (≤35 years) which occurred in the Veneto Region of Italy were prospectively studied
It's a past study, present tense wouldn't seem to apply.
I am not sure what you mean this study is not recent and it is done by studying historical data
> In the time interval 1979–1998, 273 consecutive cases of SCD in young people (≤35 years) which occurred in the Veneto Region of Italy were prospectively studied.
I posted the article because the title caught my attention. Only after I looked more closely it did I realize it was published in 2001. I considered deleting the post until I read the article and saw that it was a PROSPECTIVE study. As a long-time medical researcher and author (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=5DdrMc8AAAAJ&hl=en), I know how much more likely to be valid are results from prospective rather than retrospective series.
If true, it's worrying. As ever, best to keep one's powder dry and wait for more data to come in. I haven't seen the initial report yet.
Here's the clip:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ8t0qQ5R4I