LEFT-VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC FILLING PERFORMANCE IN OLDER MALE-ATHLETES
LEFT-VENTRICULAR DIASTOLIC FILLING PERFORMANCE IN OLDER MALE-ATHLETES
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DOI:
10.1001/jama.273.17.1371
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发表时间:
1995-05-03
影响因子:
120.7
通讯作者:
LAKATTA, EG
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作者:
FLEG, JL;SHAPIRO, EP;LAKATTA, EG
Objective.-To determine whether older men who have undergone intensive endurance training over many years demonstrate less age-associated impairment of early diastolic left ventricular (LV) filling performance than their sedentary peers.Design.-Cross-sectional prospective study.Setting.-Community-dwelling research volunteers.Participants.-Sixteen older competitive male endurance athletes aged 52 through 76 years and 17 young (40 years) and 23 older (52 through 76 years) sedentary control subjects from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging.Intervention.-All subjects underwent resting Doppler echocardiography and determination of maximal aerobic capacity (Vo(2)max) during graded treadmill exercise. Doppler echocardiographic studies were interpreted without knowledge of the subject's age or exercise habits.Main Outcome Measures.-Doppler-derived measures of LV diastolic filling performance: peak early (E) filling velocity, peak late (A) filling velocity, ratio of peak E to peak A velocities (E/A), and atrial filling fraction.Results.-Older athletes demonstrated higher Vo(2)max (47+/-6 mL/kg per minute [mean+/-SD]) than either the young controls (41 +/-7 mL/kg per minute) or older controls (30+/-7 mL/kg per minute) (P