Cardiovascular function and the veteran athlete
Wilson, Mathew O’Hanlon, R. Basavarajaiah, S. George, Keith Green, David I. Ainslie, P. Sharma, S. Prasad, S. Murrell, C. Thijssen, D.
Wilson, Mathew
O’Hanlon, R.
Basavarajaiah, S.
George, Keith
Green, David I.
Ainslie, P.
Sharma, S.
Prasad, S.
Murrell, C.
Thijssen, D.
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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.
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European Journal of Applied Physiology, 110 (3):459
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1439-6319
1439-6327
1439-6327