Young Athletes and Sport Participants at Risk: Ephedra Regulation and Legal Issues in the United States Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • How does a 16-year-old die of myocardial infarction? It wasnt just a mild myocardial infarction. I had to ask the pathologist what that meant. Troponin, which is an enzyme specific marker to the heart, was at 100 level, the number 100. You and I as adults are at one or two on a normal days level. The troponin in your heart tells it to keep beating. When youre having a heart attack at 50, 60 years old, 70 years old, it would be marked at four to five. Think about it. Youre at 100. The heart was racing so fast it just kind of couldnt do anything. It couldnt pump the blood fast enough and thats why he had a heart attack.

published proceedings

  • Entertainment and Sports Law Journal

author list (cited authors)

  • Spengler, J. O., Connaughton, D. P., & Connaughton, A. V.

citation count

  • 0

complete list of authors

  • Spengler, John O||Connaughton, Daniel P||Connaughton, Angela V

publication date

  • March 2003