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• TITLE: ECG and Echocardiography Findings: A Comparative Study between Sportive and Sedentary Female Patients (Bamako, Mali)

  AUTHORS: Ibrahima Sangaré, Hamidou Oumar Bâ, Youssouf Camara, Ichaka Menta, Rokiatou Mété, Noumou Sidibé, Souleymane Coulibaly, Fousseyni Coulibaly, Aladji Traoré, Illo Diall, Lydia Berenice Sita Sangaré, Boubakar Diallo, Kassoum Mamourou Sanogo

  KEYWORDS: ECG, Echocardiography, Footballers, Women, Sedentary, Bamako

  JOURNAL NAME: World Journal of Cardiovascular Diseases, Vol.9 No.7, July 31, 2019

  ABSTRACT: Objective: To study cardiovascular cardiac and echocardiographic features in high-level footballers and sedentary women in Bamako. Materials and Methods: This was a cross-sectional study conducted in Bamako from April 2015 to March 2016 among 14 to 35 years old high-level footballers and a group of untrained women. Data including socio-demographic, physical examination, ECG record and echocardiogram was inserted in Microsoft Excel and analyzed with IBM SPSS. Chi Square and Fisher statistical tests were used to compare our results. The significance level was p 0.05. Results: Forty-three female subjects, 51% being sedentary were recruited. Mean age, weight and height were significantly higher in sportswomen than in sedentary women with respectively p of trophy and dilatation and left atrial dilatation were predominant in sportswomen. Conclusion: Bradycardia, left ventricle hypertrophy and dilatation were found more in sportswomen. These changes acquired through physical training are aspects of cardiac adaptation that we found in our sample. Other aspects were not found probably due to the small size of the sample.