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- Title
Cardiovascular function and the veteran athlete.
- Authors
Wilson, M.; O'Hanlon, R.; Basavarajaiah, S.; George, K.; Green, D.; Ainslie, P.; Sharma, S.; Prasad, S.; Murrell, C.; Thijssen, D.; Nevill, A.; Whyte, G.
- Abstract
The cardiovascular benefits of exercise are well known. In contrast, the impact of lifelong endurance exercise is less well understood. Long-term high-intensity endurance exercise is associated with changes in cardiac morphology together with electrocardiographic alterations that are believed to be physiologic in nature. Recent data however has suggested a number of deleterious adaptive changes in cardiac structure, function and electrical activity, together with peripheral and cerebral vascular structure and function. This review serves to detail knowledge in relation to; (1) Cardiac structure and function in veteran endurance athletes focusing on the differentiation of physiological and pathological changes in cardiac remodelling; (2) Cardiac electrical activity and the veteran endurance athlete with attention to arrhythmias, the substrate for arrhythmia generation and the clinical significance of such arrhythmias; (3) Peripheral and cerebral vascular structure and function in ageing and endurance-trained individuals; and (4) directions for future research.
- Subjects
ATHLETES; HEART beat; ARRHYTHMIA; HEART diseases; EXERCISE; AGING; CARDIOVASCULAR system; CARDIOVASCULAR system physiology; COMPARATIVE studies; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; RESEARCH; EVALUATION research; ANATOMY
- Publication
European Journal of Applied Physiology, 2010, Vol 110, Issue 3, p459
- ISSN
1439-6319
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00421-010-1534-3