- Title
- Cardiac response to exercise in normal ageing : What can we learn from masters athletes?
- Creator
- Beaumont, Alexander; Campbell, Amy; Grace, Fergal; Sculthorpe, Nicholas
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article; Review
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/166747
- Identifier
- vital:13501
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.2174/1573403X14666180810155513
- Identifier
- ISBN:1573-403X
- Abstract
- Background: Ageing is associated with an inexorable decline in cardiac and vascular function, resulting in an increased risk of Cardiovascular Disease (CVD). Lifestyle factors such as exercise have emerged as a primary therapeutic target in the prevention of CVD, yet older individuals are frequently reported as being the least active, with few meeting the recommended physical activity guidelines. In contrast, well trained older individuals (Masters athletes) have superior functional capacity than their sedentary peers and are often comparable with young non-athletes. Therefore, the 'masters' athlete may be viewed as a unique non-pharmacological model which may allow researchers to disentangle the inexorable from the preventable and the magnitude of the unavoidable 'true' reduction in cardiac function due to ageing. Conclusion: This review examines evidence from studies which have compared cardiac structure and function in well trained older athletes, with age-matched controls but otherwise healthy. © 2018 Bentham Science Publishers.
- Publisher
- Bentham Science Publishers B.V.
- Relation
- Current Cardiology Reviews Vol. 14, no. 4 (2018), p. 245-253
- Rights
- Copyright © 2018 Bentham Science Publishers.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1102 Cardiorespiratory Medicine and Haematology; 1103 Clinical Sciences; 1117 Public Health and Health Services; Athletes; Cardiac remodelling; Cardiac response; Diastolic function; Healthy ageing; Systolic function
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