Paediatric and adolescent athletes in Switzerland: age-adapted proposals for pre-participation cardiovascular evaluation

High-level sports competition is popular among Swiss youth. Even though preparticipation evaluation for competitive athletes is widespread, screening strategies for diseases responsible for sudden death during sport are highly variable. Hence, the authors sought to develop age-specific preparticipation cardiovascular evaluation proposals for Swiss paediatric and adolescent athletes.

The mental distress of our youth in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic

The authors found a significant increase in psychiatric service use, as well as in reported serious mental health symptoms such as suicidality and self-harm behaviour in help-seeking children and adolescents in the course of the pandemic.

Young adults after arterial switch operation for transposition of the great arteries in Switzerland: a growing population

The majority of adult arterial switch operation patients have normal functional class and cardiac function. Complex anatomy and residual lesions play a key role when regarding the occurrence of cardiac-related complications during follow-up. The role of QRS prolongation over time needs to be investigated further.

Research on occupational diseases in the absence of occupational data: a mixed-method study among cancer registries of Western Switzerland

The contribution of occupation-related diseases to the global burden of disease is greatly underestimated, mainly due to a shortage of occupational exposure data. This problem is particularly salient in Switzerland, where no estimates of occupation-related disease burden exist, even for the well-recognised occupational cancers, such as malignant pleural mesothelioma and lung cancer.

PROCAM based myocardial infarction risk in relation to global vascular disease risk: observations from the ARCO cohort study

In Switzerland, risk for acute myocardial infarction has been considered as equivalent to risk for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD). This may lead to an underestimation of ASCVD risk and prevent adequate preventive measures.

Cohort profile: the Swiss Cerebral Palsy Registry (Swiss-CP-Reg) cohort study

Swiss-CP-Reg collects and exchanges national data on people living with CP to answer clinically relevant questions. Its structure enables retrospective and prospective data collection and knowledge exchange between experts to optimise and standardise treatment and to improve the health and quality of life of those diagnosed with CP in Switzerland.

Organ donation after circulatory death as compared with organ donation after brain death in Switzerland – an observational study

When carefully selected and allowed for other risk factors in organ allocation, prolonged functional warm ischaemia time or higher age in donation after circulatory death does not seem to be associated with impaired graft function early after transplantation.