- Posts: 10393
- Thank you received: 65
Running causes heart attacks
27 Mar 2014 09:17 #1
by Blazer Bob
Running causes heart attacks was created by Blazer Bob
Well that is not exactly what is says but what is accuracy compared to a good headline.
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... ding_now_1
..."A study published in the current edition of Missouri Medicine found that 50 men who had run at least one marathon a year for 25 years had higher levels of coronary-artery plaque than a control group of sedentary men. A British Medical Journal study published this year compared the carotid arteries of 42 Boston Marathon qualifiers with their much-less active spouses. "We hypothesized that the runners would have a more favourable atherosclerotic risk profile," says the article. As it turned out, that hypothesis was wrong.
A small body of research suggests that heart problems may arise not in spite of extreme-endurance exercise but because of it. That has led some cardiologists to theorize that, beyond a certain point, exercise stops preventing and starts causing heart disease."...
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1 ... ding_now_1
..."A study published in the current edition of Missouri Medicine found that 50 men who had run at least one marathon a year for 25 years had higher levels of coronary-artery plaque than a control group of sedentary men. A British Medical Journal study published this year compared the carotid arteries of 42 Boston Marathon qualifiers with their much-less active spouses. "We hypothesized that the runners would have a more favourable atherosclerotic risk profile," says the article. As it turned out, that hypothesis was wrong.
A small body of research suggests that heart problems may arise not in spite of extreme-endurance exercise but because of it. That has led some cardiologists to theorize that, beyond a certain point, exercise stops preventing and starts causing heart disease."...
Please Log in or Create an account to join the conversation.
Time to create page: 0.155 seconds
sponsors
