AN ATHLETE'S HEART
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The condition known as an athlete's heart involves a small increase in the general size of the heart, both the ventricles and the atrium are slightly enlarged, and also a slight thickening in the heart muscles. Studies has also shown that the blood vessels are also increased in width.
this is not necessarily a pathological situation, it is a normal change that occurs in the heart of people who engage in intense training.
It is inferred that this changes are adaptive, in the sense that, the heart simply adapted to this state to be able to pump blood to the athlete's body effectively.
Ordinarily in the body of a normal individual, this is a pathologic situation, that can lead to a serious medical condition, known as cardiomyopathy.
When the heart chambers increase, the result is an increase in stroke volume, that is the increase in the heart output per beat.
Though the amount of beats or heart rate vary from individual to individual and also by age.
Echocardiography of these athletes show a greater diameter of the ventricles and atrium, but yet the individual will be normal and okay.
Due to this cardiomegaly, the athlete might have bradycardia(low heart rate).
this bradycardia is also normal, it is actually due to the efficiency of the heart.
in other words, each beat the heart makes, produces enough blood and enough oxygen than that of an ordinary person would, so the heart will now have to reduce the number of times it pumps per minute, and still satisfy the body's needs
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