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Can the Heart Survive a Sports Injury? A Lecture with Dr. Paul Thompson
1555 Asylum Ave, West Hartford, CT 06117Increasing physical activity is associated with reduced atherosclerotic cardiovascular events, but recent studies show that vigorous endurance exercise increases markers of cardiomyocyte injury and suggest that lifelong endurance exercise increases myocardial scarring, coronary artery atherosclerosis, atrial fibrillation (AF), and aortic dilatation. This presentation will summarize the evidence linking these conditions with physical exertion and an…