The absence of health awareness among many people, in addition to the lack of supervision and the lack of a health card for those who frequented the gymnasium may lead to sudden death.
Why is the specter of death flying around gyms? A question imposed itself strongly after the sudden death cases in these halls, as happened recently with the Egyptian announcer Amr Samir Spain: The Spanish forensic report attributed the death of Amr to a sharp drop in blood circulation after practicing sports for a long time without eating any food, which Caused the blood sugar to drop rapidly causing his heart to stop.
Amr's death brought to mind the incident of Mamdouh Abdel-Alim, who lost his life on January 5, 2016 following a heart attack in the gym at Al-Jazira Club. This raises several questions: What causes the sudden death of some athletes during exercise Different sports or while exercising in the gym? Are all athletes vulnerable to sudden heart attacks while practicing sport? What are the conditions, precautions and guidelines that fitness researchers should follow when practicing indoor sports???
4 reasons
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Andrew Krahn, head of the Department of Cardiology at the University of British Columbia, told "Science" about his 2012 study, "Sudden cardiac death under the age of 40: Is exercise serious?" - "There are four reasons why Sudden death during training in gyms, the first is Long QT Syndrome, an inherited heart disorder that can cause seizures that cause palpitations, fainting, sudden death due to ventricular fibrillation, and myocardial infarction which affects the heart muscle so that it becomes Abnormally thick, what it loses the ability to pump blood with full force, and Olathe tachycardia and ventricular, what causes heart palpitations and contraction and acceleration Dqath, and the fourth and final is to cardiomyopathy Allanzemi or cirrhosis of the right ventricle of the heart, arises from the electrical heart disorder. "
Doubling the risk of athletes
According to a Swedish study published in the journal Journal of Internal Medicine in 2014, "the risk of sudden death multiplies during exercise, not only for non-athletes; the athletes' sudden death is 1-3 per 100,000 athletes "The risk of sudden death during exercise is greater among athletes aged 35 years or older."
Another study - conducted by an international team of researchers in March 2017 - succeeded in identifying a new gene that could lead to sudden death among young people and athletes. The gene, called CDH2, causes what is known as arrhythmia, a genetic disorder that prepares patients for heart attack and is a major cause of unexpected death in a group of healthy young people.
According to the study, these inherited forms of myocardial infarction often cause sudden death in young people under the age of 35. In this particular disease, fatty and fibrous tissue replace the heart tissue and encourages the development of arrhythmia and ventricular fibrillation Heart dysfunction due to dysfunction in the system causes tremor), causing loss of consciousness and heart attack.
Heart attacks
"One of the causes of sudden death that may occur to some gym attendants is over-training and lack of gradual exercise," said Ashraf Jamil, physical fitness specialist for Egypt's handball team and a fitness expert. The body and its vital organs for a higher pressure than those devices. "
"One of the causes of heart attacks that may affect some fitness club visitors is the lack of a balanced diet that contains carbohydrates, proteins, salts, vitamins and water," says Jamil. "Malnutrition causes the oxygen supply of oxygen to reach the vital organs of the body. Sudden death and heart attacks, and training on an empty stomach is one of the most serious causes of death in gyms, as well as the inability of vital organs to carry loads and exercises high-voltage, causing severe fatigue may result in sudden death.
Hospitalization
Jamil asserts that one of the reasons that may lead to serious setbacks in gyms is not to help the body regain its energy after the effort, noting that "after exhausting exercise, the body needs to know what is known as the process of recovery, which aims to remove all traces of those exercises or some, The body needs to exercise relaxation, massage, sauna and Jacuzzi, and these types of relaxation restore the body to normal, "stressing the need to" eat a balanced diet contains all the essential elements needed by the body, and sleep for at least P 8 hours a day, and eat at least 3 liters of water per day, taking into account the intake of small amounts of water during the exercise.
.Health Card
Gyms around the world are interested in having a "health card for any exercise practitioner", including the age of the player, details of his or her health and the family's history. In spite of a decision issued in 2014 by the Egyptian Minister of Health in coordination with the Minister of Youth and Sports, "The necessity of having a doctor in the gyms, issuing a health card for each person including details of his health, heart condition, chest and blood pressure." However, The halls and the absence of an official census of its number makes the application of this decision a mere ink on paper.
"A person must be screened prior to the start of the exercise," said Yasser Fouad, a nutritionist and physical fitness specialist, who also needs to prepare a file for the person, including his health status, specifically with regard to circulatory disorders, hypertension, diabetes and heart disease. Whether he is a smoker or not, whether he is taking certain drugs and whether he drinks alcohol because all these factors directly affect the lives of sports practitioners, but unfortunately, a few gym officers in Egypt are interested in following these rules. "
"If someone is suffering from heart disease, stress or sugar, it is necessary to get breaks between the exercise and the one is relatively longer than that of the normal person." A person who has over 40 years of age and has heart operations should not exercise Exercise, such as walking, running and cycling, is more than two hours a week. For those over the age of 57, aerobic exercise should not be more than 10 minutes a day.