> Edit: And to all the wonderful people who no doubt checked themselves to make sure they had expertise on the subject before they downvoted my question (!), here's some food for thought:

My original comment specifically highlights that the studies are split, but you are cherry-picking articles that support an argument you are trying to make that athletes aren’t suffering from heart inflammation.

Moreover, based on your initial question to my comment, you don’t even seem to be aware that heart inflammation isn’t necessarily going to effect performance, rather it presents potential longterm and acute risks of a negative outcome to the athletes, and you are specifically citing athlete performance as evidence athletes aren’t suffering from heart inflammation.

All things being equal it is probably better to be a young athlete with heart inflammation than to live a sedentary lifestyle and be obese with heart inflammation for purposes of health outcome, but I think you are confounding risk of having heart inflammation with risk of negative outcomes from heart inflammation. As research and studies continue it could very well be the risk of heart inflammation is in fact equal among the populace, while negative outcomes will be unequal, ultimately this is still going to drive up negative outcomes across the board.