Aspirin Use to Reduce the Risk of Sports-Related Cardiac Arrest in High-Risk Athletes

Aspirin is used to mitigate the increasing frequency of marathon-related cardiac arrests

“…Prediction of acute cardiac events in patients with chest pain demonstrates the prognostic signifi cance of this fi nding as shown by Ferencik M, et al and supports the rationale for using low-dose aspirin to mitigate the increasing frequency of exertional cardiac arrests mainly in middle-aged males due to previously undiagnosed coronary atherosclerosis [5]. Asymptomatic Boston marathon physician-runners have been shown to cross the fi nish line with elevated cardiac and infl ammatory biomarkers resembling patients with acute coronary syndrome [6]. A post-race hemostatic imbalance with pro-coagulant effects including in vivo platelet activation and elevated D-dimer levels also occurred, providing evidence for acute activation of atherothrombosis likely due to systemic infl ammation following exertional rhabdomyolysis [7].…”

The Strategy of Physiological Arousal of Athletes in Sports Competition Based on Drug Intervention

“…But the national regulations allow athletes to take analgesic, anti-inflammatory, breathing and other drugs can reduce the physical burden of athletes, and ensure that athletes play a better level of competition. 2 Take antipyretic and analgesic aspirin and acetaminophen as examples, both belong to non steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and can play a physiological arousal state. 3,4 However, the level of physiological arousal of athletes is different between the two.…”