NSIAP: How a cardiologist may have saved the college football season

[jedihusker]

How a cardiologist may have saved the college football season

Thought this was interesting. Cardiologist, in the B1G footprint no less, helped Big 12 decide to keep going forward with football.

 

[GBRforLife1]

How a cardiologist may have saved the college football season

Thought this was interesting. Cardiologist, in the B1G footprint no less, helped Big 12 decide to keep going forward with football.

This is maddening. It's the exact same report the Big 10 used to cancel the season. It's been widely discredited almost immediately.

So the Big 12 can do their homework, but the Big 10 can't?

Fire Kevin Warren now. What a joke.

From the article:

"Enter Ackerman.

The Minnesota-based cardiologist leads the Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Lab which studies, among other things, sudden death in young athletes. He explained to the Big 12′s leaders that a new myocarditis study in the Journal of American Medical Association that sparked panic across college sports didn’t have the “bandwidth” to be transferable in a useful way. The study, conducted in Germany and composed of middle-aged adults, found that 78 percent of the 100 participants had some cardiac abnormality. Ackerman said it’d be a “scientific foul” to infer that those findings are relevant for 18 to 24-year old athletes."

 

[jedihusker]

This is maddening. It's the exact same report the Big 10 used to cancel the season. It's been widely discredited almost immediately.

So the Big 12 can do their homework, but the Big 10 can't?

Fire Kevin Warren now. What a joke.

From the article:

"Enter Ackerman.

The Minnesota-based cardiologist leads the Windland Smith Rice Sudden Death Genomics Lab which studies, among other things, sudden death in young athletes. He explained to the Big 12′s leaders that a new myocarditis study in the Journal of American Medical Association that sparked panic across college sports didn’t have the “bandwidth” to be transferable in a useful way. The study, conducted in Germany and composed of middle-aged adults, found that 78 percent of the 100 participants had some cardiac abnormality. Ackerman said it’d be a “scientific foul” to infer that those findings are relevant for 18 to 24-year old athletes."

I agree, it's maddening. Reading the qualifications of this doctor, it sounds like he might be about as close as you can come to an expert on the subject. He is at the Mayo Clinic, in Minnesota, so the B1G wouldn't even have had to go outside the B1G footprint to get his expertise.

I found this part very interesting too:
"He cautioned them to consider possible mental health ramifications of canceling a season, referencing past experiences with athletes who suffered after being medically disqualified for heart issues."

Even though his expertise isn't in the mental health arena, his experience working with athletes in the past gives him some insight on the subject. It certainly seems to me, based on this quote, that he thinks the mental health ramifications from canceling football could be worse or at the very least just as bad as the unlikely serious complications from Covid infections for college football players.