Why the study?
Does physical conditioning affect heart size and wall thickness similarly in college women and men?
Population
91 subjects including 40 sedentary college women, 8 sprinters, 6 distance runners, 10 swimmers, 9 basketball…
Comparison
10 weeks of running for a subset of 10 sedentary… vs Sedentary controls and baseline measurements.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
10 weeks of conditioning, followed by 10 weeks of…
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Short-term running may induce similar reversible LV adaptations in sedentary men and women; leaves open generalizability and causality.
Does physical conditioning affect heart size and wall thickness similarly in college women and men?
Modest levels of endurance conditioning produce similar, reversible cardiac morphological adaptations in both sedentary men and women.
Rubal et al. (1987) studied this question.
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