Cardiovascular function and the veteran athlete
dc.contributor.author | Wilson, Mathew | |
dc.contributor.author | O’Hanlon, R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Basavarajaiah, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | George, Keith | |
dc.contributor.author | Green, David I. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ainslie, P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Sharma, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Prasad, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Murrell, C. | |
dc.contributor.author | Thijssen, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Nevill, Alan M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Whyte, Gregory P. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-04-01T14:06:25Z | |
dc.date.available | 2011-04-01T14:06:25Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
dc.identifier.citation | European Journal of Applied Physiology, 110 (3):459 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1439-6319 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 1439-6327 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1007/s00421-010-1534-3 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2436/126785 | |
dc.description.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 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. | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Springer Verlag | |
dc.relation.url | http://www.springerlink.com/index/10.1007/s00421-010-1534-3 | |
dc.subject | Veteran athlete | |
dc.subject | Endurance | |
dc.subject | Cardiac remodelling | |
dc.subject | Arrhythmia | |
dc.subject | Fibrosis | |
dc.title | Cardiovascular function and the veteran athlete | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.identifier.journal | European Journal of Applied Physiology | |
html.description.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 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. |