Jogging can precipitate severe cardiac events in susceptible middle-aged individuals, highlighting the potential need for more complete medical screening prior to exercise programs.
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Jogging-related cardiac events in middle-aged adults warrant clinical caution; case reports leave open the value of expanded pre-exercise screening.
Two patients suffered severe cardiac complications while jogging in organized exercise programs. An acute inferior myocardial infarction developed in one, while the other had a cardiac arrest. Complication-prone, middle-aged candidates for exercise programs might be discovered with more complete medical screening, and thereby be more closely supervised in their activity.
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