Patterns of resting electrocardiogram of male college track and field athletes

Year 2022, , 50 - 55, 30.06.2022

Oluwabusayo Odunayo Akinbiola , Oluwadare Ogunlade

https://doi.org/10.31459/turkjkin.1112544

Abstract

This study sought to determine the resting Electrocardiogram of male college Track and Field athletes, with a view to identifying electrocardiographic changes attributable to cardiac adaptations and possible differences in ECG morphologies by the athletic event. A descriptive survey design was used in the study. The population was male track and field athletes of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria. Eighteen athletes; track (n=10) and field (n=8), were purposively selected from the OAU Athletics team that participated in the 14th West-African Universities’ Games, held at the University of Port-Harcourt, Rivers State Nigeria in 2018. Resting ECG was recorded with a 12-lead Electrocardiograph (SCHILLER-Cardiovit AT-2 plus), blood pressure was recorded with a digital blood pressure monitor (OMRON-M6 Comfort), weight, height, and BMI were recorded with an electronic BMI scale (SECA-220). Descriptive statistic of mean and standard deviation was computed and a paired-sample t-test was used to compare the resting ECG of athletes in the two divisions. Track and field athletes had mean RR-interval, P-wave, PR-interval, QRS-interval, QT-interval, and QTc of 993.22 ± 111.51ms, 97.12 ± 10.87ms, 157.00 ± 34.34ms, 120.67 ± 58.22ms, 376.94 ± 55.34ms and 416.78 ± 46.98mm respectively. With regards to voltage, athletes had mean voltages of 0.11 ± 0.09mm, -0.98 ± 0.77mm, and 1.54 ± 0.73mm for P-wave in lead II, S in VI, and R in V5 respectively. When athletes’ ECGs in the two divisions were compared, a significant difference was only found in the RR-interval (t = -3.08; P < 0.05). The study concluded that there were no distinctive morphological differences in the resting ECG of Nigerian collegiate track and field athletes.

Keywords

Athlete, blood pressure, heart rate, resting ECG, track and field

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