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The prevalence of postexercise cardiac troponin release across exercise settings and populations, its underlying mechanisms, and its clinical significance remain not fully determined.
What is the prevalence, mechanism, and clinical significance of exercise-induced cardiac troponin release in healthy individuals and athletes?
What is the prevalence, mechanism, and clinical significance of exercise-induced cardiac troponin release in healthy individuals and athletes?
This review summarizes current knowledge on exercise-induced cardiac troponin elevations, emphasizing the need to understand its clinical significance and differentiate it from pathological cardiac injury.
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Exercise-induced cTn elevations lack clear clinical meaning; leaves open mechanistic and prognostic questions across populations.
It is well established that regular physical activity reduces cardiovascular disease risk; however, numerous studies have demonstrated postexercise elevations in cardiac troponin (cTn), indicative of cardiac injury in apparently healthy individuals. The prevalence of these findings in different exercise settings and population groups, as well as potential underlying mechanisms and clinical significance of exercise-induced cTn release are not yet quite determined. The present review will discuss the cTn response to exercise in light of developing cTn assays and the correlation between postexercise cTn release and cardiac function. Additionally, recent data regarding the potential link between strenuous endurance exercise and its relationship with unfavorable cardiac effects in athletes, as well as the management of patients presenting at emergency care after sport events will be briefly reviewed.
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Stavroulakis et al. (2020) studied this question.
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