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Competitive Sport Participation Among Athletes with Heart Disease

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  • Aaron Baggish, MD, director of Mass General's Cardiovascular Performance Program, focuses his research on heart function and heart disease in athletic individuals
  • In this video, he discusses the shift to a shared decision-making model between athletes with heart conditions and their clinicians as well as quantifying the exercise dose-response relationship

  

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