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Sportkardiologie: Eine Standortbestimmung // Sports cardiology – positioning Journal für Kardiologie - Austrian Journal of Cardiology 2025; 32 (7-8): 161-164 Volltext (PDF) Summary Keywords: kardiovaskuläre Erkrankung, körperliches Training, Primärprävention, Sekundärprävention, Sportmedizin, cardiovascular disease, physical exercise training, primary prevention, secondary prevention, sports medicine Exercise and sport have found their way into clinical guidelines for prevention and treatment including rehabilitation of cardiovascular diseases of leading professional societies like the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) with the highest level of evidence IA. Nonetheless, the knowledge required to implement these recommendations into clinical practice is only being taught to a very limited extent during medical school and specialist training. The ESC recognized this imbalance more than ten years ago and created a curriculum for sports cardiology, which has led in Germany to the additional qualification in sports cardiology. Our University Institute for Prevention, Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine at the University Hospital Salzburg has been accredited by both the European Association of Preventive Cardiology of the ESC and the German Society of Cardiology as a training facility and center for sports cardiology, and one can obtain this additional qualification with us. Such an additional qualification could certainly be of interest to us in Austria as well; initial considerations are underway. In fact, patients are – fortunately – asking more and more questions about the benefits and dangers of sport and exercise, and it seems sensible to offer at least more advanced training courses in the field of sports cardiology, or perhaps even additional qualifications to meet these unmet needs. The relevant background and content are presented in this paper.
Kurzfassung: Bewegung und Sport haben mit höchster Evidenzklasse Einzug in die Leitlinien führender Fachgesellschaften zur Prävention und Therapie einschließlich der Rehabilitation von Herzkreislauferkrankungen gefunden. Im Medizinstudium, aber auch in der Facharztausbildung wird das notwendige Wissen für die Umsetzung dieser Empfehlungen weiterhin nur begrenzt vermittelt. Die Europäische Gesellschaft für Kardiologie hat diese Schieflage bereits vor mehr als zehn Jahren erkannt und ein Curriculum für die Sportkardiologie erstellt, welches in Deutschland zur Zusatzqualifikation Sportkardiologie geführt hat. |
