Key result
Endurance-trained young women had significantly larger blood volume (5053 vs 4327 mL) and stroke volume than moderately active women, with stroke volume increasing progressively to maximum.
Why the study?
Does endurance training improve stroke volume and cardiac performance during incremental exercise to maximum in young women compared to moderate activity?
Observational (n=14)
Does endurance training improve stroke volume and cardiac performance during incremental exercise to maximum in young women compared to moderate activity?
Endurance-trained young women demonstrate a progressively increasing stroke volume during maximal exercise without a plateau, driven by enhanced diastolic filling and larger blood volume.
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Endurance training may enhance stroke volume in young women; hypothesis-generating and leaves open causality pending prospective trials.
FERGUSON et al. (2001) conducted an observational in Healthy young women (n=14). Endurance-trained status vs. Moderately active status was evaluated on Cardiac performance including stroke volume, blood volume, diastolic filling rate, and left ventricular emptying rate. Endurance-trained young women had significantly larger blood volume (5053 vs 4327 mL) and stroke volume than moderately active women, with stroke volume increasing progressively to maximum.
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