Authors
Wilson, MathewO’Hanlon, R.
Basavarajaiah, S.
George, Keith
Green, David I.
Ainslie, P.
Sharma, S.
Prasad, S.
Murrell, C.
Thijssen, D.
Nevill, Alan M.
Whyte, Gregory P.
Issue Date
2010
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The cardiovascular benefits of exercise are well known. In contrast, the impact of lifelong endurance exercise is less well understood. Long-term high-intensity ndurance 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.Citation
European Journal of Applied Physiology, 110 (3):459Publisher
Springer VerlagJournal
European Journal of Applied PhysiologyAdditional Links
http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s00421-010-1534-3Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
1439-63191439-6327
ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1007/s00421-010-1534-3