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Why is it not good in the long term?

• PaulHoule 5y ago
  https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/cardiovascular-disorders/sports-and-the-heart/athlete%E2%80%99s-heart https://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/cardiovascular-dis... I wore a heart monitor for a month and we observed about 30 seconds worth of AFib right at the very end. (Oddly I had experienced a very interesting setback in my personal life around then.) I had the signs described above. My doc said I should go on exercising but I shouldn't train more than 1 hour a day. (In a time when my life went to crap I had got into the 2 hours a day habit to fight my depression.)
  • netizen-936824 5y ago
    That sounds like it might just be correlation. But besides that, athletic training can cause left ventricular hypertrophy but it hasn't really been associated with disease state afaik
    • CSSer 5y ago
      Reading through the whole linked article seems to suggest precisely this too. Unless I'm missing something, all it's saying is that if you exercise routinely for >1 hr at a time it's more likely that a doctor may mistakenly diagnose you with a cardiovascular disorder because of the characteristic changes in your heart as a result of repeated exercise, especially if they're not aware that you do exercise often. So they have to be careful when evaluating patients who exercise for heart conditions so as to not misdiagnose a collection of otherwise benign characteristics as a more severe disease requiring treatment. In short, athlete's hearts are a little different; evaluate patient with this in mind.
      • PaulHoule 5y ago
        People who run marathons competitively have atrial fibrillation at a several times higher rate than other people. It's an interesting problem for competitive athletes (say Serena Williams) who might not play as hard since the risk of concussions are worse if you are taking anticoagulants.