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We evaluated the prevalence, burden, and morphology of PVBs in healthy voluntary athletes and controls with the main purpose of defining if certain PVB patterns are \u2018common\u2019 and \u2018training related\u2019 and, as such, are more likely benign.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Methods and results<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>We studied 433 healthy competitive athletes [median age 27 (18\u201343) years, 74% males] and 261 age- and sex-matched sedentary subjects who volunteered to undergo 12-lead 24\u2005h ambulatory electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring (24H ECG), with a training session in athletes. Ventricular arrhythmias (VAs) were evaluated in terms of their number, complexity [i.e. couplet, triplet, or non-sustained ventricular tachycardia (NSVT)], exercise inducibility, and morphology. Eighty-six percent of athletes and controls exhibited a total of \u226410 PVBs\/24\u2005h, and &amp;gt;90% did not show any couplets, triplets, or runs of NSVT &amp;gt; 3 beats. An higher number of PVBs correlated with increasing age (P &amp;lt; 0.01) but not with sex and level of training. The most frequent morphologies among the 36 athletes with &amp;gt;50 PVBs were the infundibular (44%) and fascicular (22%) ones. In a comparison between athletes and sedentary individuals, and male and female athletes, no statistically significant differences were found in PVBs morphologies.<\/jats:p>\n               <\/jats:sec>\n               <jats:sec>\n                  <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                  <jats:p>The prevalence and complexity of VAs at 24H ECG did not differ between athletes and sedentary controls and were not related to the type and amount of sport or sex. Age was the only variable associated with an increased PVB burden. 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