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The Risks and Benefits of 'Too Much' Exercise

Physiologically Speaking

These numbers indicate rising participation — an increase in people involved in chronic endurance exercise training for the sake of competition and health. heart attack, arrhythmia, underlying congenital heart abnormality). We know exercise, and especially a marathon, stresses the heart.

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Rise of COVID's JN.1 Sub variant Cases in India in 2023

Wellnest

Can COVID-19 symptoms mimic a heart attack? Yes, COVID-19 symptoms can resemble a heart attack, including chest pain, shortness of breath, and changes in echocardiogram or EKG. However, angiograms often reveal no major blockage in the heart’s blood vessels, indicating a different mechanism.

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New Drug Fails to Improve Diabetes-Related Heart Failure

DAIC

Decline in exercise ability is a hallmark of progression to overt heart failure. The international ARISE-HF trial was designed to test the effectiveness of the investigational drug AT-001 at stabilizing exercise capacity in patients with diabetic cardiomyopathy.

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The three things that can go wrong with the heart

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

If our valves are leaky then again, a smaller volume of blood is effectively ejected because some leaks back Cardiomyopathies – if the heart muscle itself is defective in some way then that makes it weaker. This includes conditions like familial hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, familial dilated cardiomyopathy etc.

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Does Stress Cause Heart Disease?

Dr. Paddy Barrett

But What About Stress & Heart Disease? When stress is included in the risk factor profile for a future heart attack, it comes in third on the list after abnormal cholesterol and smoking 1. That event might have been a heart rhythm issue or even a cardiac arrest. Bring back the real emergencies, I say! JAMA Netw Open.

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Resynchronising the Heart in Heart Failure

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

The heart is a pump and if the heart is in some way damaged – be that by a heart attack or a virus or harmful drugs then the heart is unable to pump out enough blood to meet the body’s requirements especially when the body is asking for more blood such as during exercise.

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What do heart tests tell us?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta

If the pump is in any way defective then not as much blood comes out of the heart and the body and all our vital organs will get less blood than they should and this could lead to harm. So cardiomyopathies, valve problems, myocarditis and previous heart attacks all cause a problem with the pumping function of the heart.