Changes in Echocardiographic Parameters among Beninese Soccer Referees during the Division 1 Championship in 2016

Table 2

Morphological parameters of cardiac left ventricle in a sample of soccer referees at the beginning and the end of the Division 1 championship (Benin, 2016).

	National level; (n = 20)		International level; (n = 17)
	At the beginning of the championship	At the end of the championship	At the beginning of the championship	At the end of the championship
IVSd (mm)	9.9 ± 0.0	10.1 ± 0.0	10.4 ± 0.1	11.0 ± 0.0
LVEDD (mm)	45.8 ± 0.4	45.0 ± 0.4	49.1 ± 0.4	47.3 ± 0.4
LVEDDi (mm/m^2)	26.8 ± 0,1	26.6 ± 0.1	27.2 ± 0.1	26.4 ± 0.0
LVPWd (mm)	8.9 ± 0.0	8.3 ± 0.0	8.7 ± 0.0	8.9 ± 0.0
LVM (g)	149.1 ± 7.6	140.1 ± 6.2	170.8 ± 10.6	170.1 ± 9.6

IVSd: thickness of the interventricular septum in diastole; LVEDDi: indexed left ventricular end-diastolic diameter; LVPWd: thickness of the left ventricular posterior wall in diastole; LVM: left ventricular mass; LVMi: indexed left ventricular mass; : difference between beginning and end of the championship, significant at P < 0.01; ††: intergroups difference, significant at P < 0.01; †††: intergroups difference, significant at P < 0.001; duration of the championship of Division 1 in 2016 = 10 weeks.