Assessment of Coronary Atherosclerosis Using Calcium Scores in Short- and Long-Distance Runners.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To determine whether there is a "dose-dependent" relationship between coronary atherosclerosis and the burden of exercise.

Background

Recent data have suggested there may be negative consequences related to strenuous exercise. Previous studies evaluating the presence of coronary atherosclerosis as assessed by coronary calcium scores have been confounded by the presence of other cardiovascular risk factors. We aimed to assess whether there was a relationship between the burden of coronary calcium and the amount of running in a local cohort.

Patients and methods

Eighty-five runners were screened on the basis of an exercise questionnaire that was later used to determine the experimental groups from January 2016 through October 2016. Twenty-nine individuals were

SUBMITTER: Jafar O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6543495 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature