Information about Athlete's Heart
Athletic heart syndrome is a medical syndrome where an athlete's heart becomes enlarged from exercise, resulting in a lower resting pulse than that of an average person. These changes would indicate heart-disease if observed in a sedentary person, but in an athlete a large heart with a slow resting pulse is the result of normal and healthy physiological adaptions, and indicates a high level of fitness. Athlete's heart is asymptomatic and needs no treatment.
The heart, being a muscle, responds to continuous stress by adapting and strengthening itself. Prolonged cardiovascular exercise, usually over an hour a day, will eventually cause an increase in stroke volume, chamber size, and wall thickness and muscle mass of the left ventricle. Thus, the heart is able to pump more blood, leading to a slower heart rate (usually between 35 and 50 beats per minute).
Signs of athlete's heart may include heart murmurs and other abnormal sounds. Athlete's heart needs to be identified in order to ensure that it is not a serious heart problem.
The heart, being a muscle, responds to continuous stress by adapting and strengthening itself. Prolonged cardiovascular exercise, usually over an hour a day, will eventually cause an increase in stroke volume, chamber size, and wall thickness and muscle mass of the left ventricle. Thus, the heart is able to pump more blood, leading to a slower heart rate (usually between 35 and 50 beats per minute).
Signs of athlete's heart may include heart murmurs and other abnormal sounds. Athlete's heart needs to be identified in order to ensure that it is not a serious heart problem.
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In medicine and psychology, the term syndrome refers to the association of several clinically recognizable features, signs (discovered by a physician), symptoms (reported by the patient), phenomena or characteristics which often occur together, so that the presence of one feature
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A sportsperson (British and American English) or athlete (principally American English) is any person who participates regularly in a sport.
Athletes can be professional (paid) or amateur (unpaid).
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Athletes can be professional (paid) or amateur (unpaid).
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Physical exercise is manual activity that develops or maintains physical fitness and overall health. It is often practiced to strengthen muscles and the cardiovascular system, and to hone athletic skills.
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In medicine, a person's pulse is the throbbing of their arteries as an effect of the heart beat. It can be felt at the neck (carotid artery), at the wrist (radial artery), behind the knee (Popliteal artery), on the inside of the elbow (Brachial artery), near the ankle joint
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The left ventricle is one of four chambers (two atria and two ventricles) in the human heart. It receives oxygenated blood from the left atrium via the mitral valve, and pumps it into the aorta via the aortic valve.
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Cardiac murmurs and other cardiac sounds
Classifications and external resources
ICD-10 R 01.
ICD-9 785.2 - 785.3
DiseasesDB 29151
MedlinePlus 003266
Murmurs
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Classifications and external resources
ICD-10 R 01.
ICD-9 785.2 - 785.3
DiseasesDB 29151
MedlinePlus 003266
Murmurs
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