Runners, Rest Easy: Heart Risks Seem Overblown
<p>Jan 11, 2012 07:23 PM
 
NEJM study  just came out  ...
 
senior author of the study was Aaron Baggish, dir of CV performance program at MGN.
 
change of cardiac arrest during or immed after a race is 1 per 184,000.
 
86% of deaths were in men;
 
study from Jan 1 2000 to May 31 2010...  ten years...
 
10.9M participants,
 
59 cases of arrest a dn 42 deaths.
 
This was NOT a study of heart attacks (or of coronary calcifications).
 
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