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Using injury surveillance to assess sport and recreation-related heat illness
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Although heat illness is preventable, it is a leading cause of death among U.S. high school and college athletes (1). Despite this, the total burden of heat illness during sports and recreation is unknown. With over 250 million U.S. residents… read more… used the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System-All Injury Program (NEISS-AIP) to examine heat illness … among sports and recreation participants of all ages from 2001 to 2009, and we used the National High …