Heart may swell suspiciously with exercise

• Autores: Andy Coghlan
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3086, 2016, pág. 10
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • People don't have to be an Olympian to have a big heart. People who exercise for only three hours a week can have an enlarged heart too, and may be wrongly diagnosed as having a heart condition as a result. Elite athletes are well known to have enlarged hearts, but no one had realized a similar phenomenon can occur in people who do a moderate amount of exercise. Declan O'Regan at Imperial College London and his team discovered this by scanning 1096 people with healthy hearts