The athlete's heart.
The athlete's heart.
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运动员的心。
DOI:
10.1093/eurheartj/3.suppl_a.193
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发表时间:
1982
影响因子:
39.3
通讯作者:
R. Rost
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作者:
R. Rost
Cardiac hypertrophy due to athletic training is a normal physiological response. There is no evidence that such cardiac enlargement is in any way pathological, and generally the heart weight does not exceed the ‘critical heart weight’ of approximately 500 g, which seems to be the limit for physiological hypertrophy. Tkc cardiac enlargement that occurs in athletes ix often obvious on the chest X-ray and is frequently accompanied by a wide variety of ECG changes that may, on occasions, produce diagnostic difficulties. Although some authors, using echocardiography, have described different patterns of cardiac hypertrophy in athletes undertaking physical force and endurance events, our results do not bear this out. We found the greater degree of hypertrophy in endurance athletes, who show marked enlargement of left ventricular cavity dimensions and wall thickness. In contrast, physical force athletes, who often have enormous body mass, simply have an increase in heart size commensurate with their increase in body mass. Our studies in athletes who begin competition in childhood show that they may also develop an athlete's heart even before puberty. Long-term studies of such children, following them into adolescence, suggests that the end result of such training is a heart size similar to athletes who begin training after childhood. Therefore, there is no evidence that children can develop cardiac hyperplasia as well as hypertrophy even when intensive training is begun at a very young age.