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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… 5946 (95% confidence interval [CI]�4194�7698) ED visits for sports- and recreation-related heat illnesses … Accessed August 13, 2010. *Ellen Yard E-mail: eyard@cdc.gov (page number not for citation purpose) … U.S. hospital EDs Entire U.S. population Nonfatal ED visits with a reference to heat illness (e.g., ‘‘heat …