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http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/15/1903 http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/15/1... "The more marathons run, the hi

http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/15/1903 http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/29/15/1... "The more marathons run, the higher the likelihood of heart disease. The number of marathons run was an independent and significant predictor of the likelihood of myocardial damage. The runners had about the same prevalence of non-zero coronary calcium compared to age matched controls randomly assigned from a survey population."

xiaoma 17y ago
The "quotation" you've written appears nowhere in that article you've linked to. Trying to pass that off as an excerpt from the the article is not the most ethical way to make your case. What the article did say in the heading titled Conclusions was this: "Regular marathon running has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular risk factor profile but the extent of calcified coronary plaque is underestimated from that risk factor profile"