Does long run affect health? The relationship between long-term jogging and myocardial scar
since the rise of modern long-distance running, it has quickly swept the world, and the simple equipment and site demand has made this sport flourishing. Normally, reasonable exercise intensity and mild long run exercises can keep the body healthy, but recent studies have shown that older athletes who have long been engaged in endurance long distance running have a higher risk of heart-muscle scarring, whether long endurance long distance running and myocardial scarring are necessary. The connection? The famous magazine, Runner's World, published an article on the matter:
> -- m -->http://static.cnbetacdn.com/ article/201... The reader asked me that I had participated in several marathon and half horse races, but my wife had been persuading me to stop running for a long run and show me some articles about long distance running that could cause myocardial scarring. How do you look at this problem?
William O. Roberts, editors of the runners world, answered that the relevant research shows that long endurance athletes have myocardial scarring, but they are not necessarily linked to the two and need further medical research to come to a conclusion, now called long distance endurance training. It is premature to cause myocardial scarring and consider it harmful to health.
the most important research that shows the relationship between the two is based on a paper published in the Journal of Applied Physiology by Matthew Wilson, which compared the hearts of three experimental groups through advanced imaging techniques. A group of 12 athletes aged 50 years old in long distance running were -67 years old, the control group was 20 ordinary people, and the other group was 17 young (26-40 year old) long distance runners. Through the examination of advanced instruments, 4 long distance runners showed myocardial scar, and no myocardial scar was detected in the control group and the young athlete group. Another Begona Benito paper, published in the Circulation journal, showed similar results through a similar study in mice: intensive training could lead to similar myocardial scarring in the heart of mice, but it was interesting that the related symptoms of the continued training in the second half of the experiment (8 weeks) disappeared. Unfortunately, this research conclusion can not be proved to be applicable to humans.
William O. Roberts concluded that these studies are hard to show that long-term participation in endurance training and event activities can be harmful to health. However, those who occasionally marathon race and keep training time in 30-60 minutes a day do not have such a phenomenon. Older athletes who have long training intensity and are actively involved in a large number of Marathon and endurance events may have some hidden dangers of myocardial scar, even if there is no clear modern medical research that shows the inevitable connection.
recommends avoiding or stopping high intensity training in the human body with a viral disease, because it is easy to cause further viral infection in the blood organs, so there is a greater chance of producing myocardial scarring. As far as we know, perennial endurance athletes involved in the study never stop training intensity.
[translated: RUNNER'S WORLD.COM]