Population
Athletes and sedentary subjects (untrained and endurance trained hearts)
Design
Review
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Suggests enhanced diastolic function in endurance athletes; Level 5 data leave open clinical outcome implications.
Doppler echocardiography is a valid non-invasive procedure for evaluating systolic and diastolic myocardial function at rest and during exercise, revealing enhanced diastolic function in endurance-trained athletes.
Huonker et al. (1996) studied this question.
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