Key result
Sports activities lower CVD and mortality risk while inducing adaptations like bradycardia and cardiac hypertrophy.
Why the study?
Physical and sports activities are recommended for health and reduce cardiovascular risk, but their effects on various cardiovascular parameters, cardiorespiratory fitness, and oxidative stress in athletes warrant review.
How do sports activities affect the cardiovascular system and cardiovascular disease risk?
How do sports activities affect the cardiovascular system and cardiovascular disease risk?
Sports activities induce significant physiological cardiovascular adaptations and reduce cardiovascular disease risk and mortality.
Encourages exercise counseling in CVD prevention; leaves open dose-response thresholds across populations.
Sports activity is generally considered to be beneficial to health. The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends physical activity as part of a healthy lifestyle. Sports activities significantly affect the cardiovascular system. A number of studies show that they significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease as well as decrease cardiovascular mortality. This review discusses changes in various cardiovascular parameters in athletes - vagotonia/bradycardia, hypertrophy of heart, ECG changes, blood pressure, and variability of cardiovascular parameters. Because of its relationship to the cardiovascular system, VO2max, which is widely used as an indicator of cardiorespiratory fitness, is also discussed. The review concludes with a discussion of reactive oxygen species (ROS) and oxidative stress, particularly in relation to changes in the cardiovascular system in athletes. The review appropriately summarizes the above issues and points out some new implications.
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ŠTURSOVÁ et al. (2023) conducted a review in Cardiovascular system changes in athletes. Sports activities was evaluated. Sports activities significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and mortality, and induce physiological changes in athletes including bradycardia, cardiac hypertrophy, and ECG alterations.
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