Abstract:The performance of sporting activities like cycling and running is a life style factor that improves health and increases the duration of healthy life [1, 2]. Heavy exercise, such as rowing, cycling, and marathon running at competitive levels, is considered to be healthy, although evidence of the opposite is published from time to time [3, 4]. It is known for quite some time that the hearts of extensive sport athletes develop left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH), known under the name of the ''athlete's heart''. … Show more
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