Effects of excessive endurance activity on the heart

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 361-364

  Seidl, Jamie ^a   Asplund, Chad A ^b  

^a EISENHOWER ARMY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER;

ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ENDURANCE; ENDURANCE SPORT; ENDURANCE TRAINING; EXERCISE; HEART; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART MUSCLE CELL; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; TRIATHLON; ADAPTATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; BLOOD; EXERCISE INDUCED CARDIOMEGALY; FIBROSIS; HEART MUSCLE; HEART VENTRICLE; HEART VENTRICLE FUNCTION; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ARRHYTHMIAS, CARDIAC; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CARDIOMEGALY, EXERCISE-INDUCED; EXERCISE; FIBROSIS; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; MYOCARDIUM; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, HUMAN; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION;

EID: 84928169869     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0000000000000097     Document Type: Article

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