ACSM’s New Preparticipation Health Screening Recommendations from ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Ninth Edition | Zendy

Paul M. Thompson | Zendy; Ross Arena | Zendy; Deborah Riebe | Zendy; Linda S. Pescatello | Zendy

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ACSM’s New Preparticipation Health Screening Recommendations from ACSM’s Guidelines for Exercise Testing and Prescription, Ninth Edition

Author(s) -

Paul M. Thompson,

Ross Arena,

Deborah Riebe,

Linda S. Pescatello

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

current sports medicine reports

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.424

H-Index - 51

eISSN - 1537-8918

pISSN - 1537-890X

DOI - 10.1249/jsr.0b013e31829a68cf

Subject(s) - medicine , sports medicine , medical prescription , medline , family medicine , physical therapy , nursing , political science , law

Previously the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) preparticipation health screening recommendations were cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk assessment and stratification of all people, and a medical examination and symptomlimited exercise testing as part of the preparticipation health screening prior to initiating vigorous-intensity physical activity in individuals at increased risk for occult CVD (14). Individuals at increased risk in these recommendations were men Q45 yr and women Q55 yr; those with 2 or more major CVD risk factors; individuals with signs and symptoms of CVD; and those with known cardiac, pulmonary, or metabolic disease. ACSM’s new preparticipation health screening recommendations are as follows:

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