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In a previous blog post, I talked about the general problem of high blood pressure, or “hypertension.” Today, I thought I’d focus our discussion about hypertension specifically on the issues that athletes face. Here at the blog, we’ve talked about many UNcommon cardiovascular problems that athletes might confront. But hypertension is different. In fact, high [...]

TUESDAY, May 26, 2009 (Health.com) — They’re bigger, brawnier, and faster than the typical male, but are National Football League players healthier than other men their age? Yes and no, according to a new NFL-funded study that looks at the cardiovascular health of young athletes. The good news is that NFL players have cholesterol levels [...]

Statistics : Blood Pressure vs. Athletes Janet and Melissa created this website based on data that we took from a simple random sample of seniors at Bloomington High School. The students that were chosen were randomly generated by a program in the calculator. They were then taken out of class and asked if it was [...]

Overview Blood pressure is the pressure of the circulating blood on blood vessel walls. This measurement, which is an indication of overall health, is divided into systolic and diastolic pressure. Systolic pressure refers to the force in the arteries when the heart beats and pumps the blood out. Diastolic pressure refers to the force in [...]

Dual Heart Tests Best for Young Athletes When Screening for Heart Defects, 2 Tests Better Than 1 By Charlene Laino WebMD Health News Reviewed By Louise Chang, MD Nov. 18, 2009 (Orlando) — Young athletes should be screened with two common heart tests, not just one — or early signs of life-threatening heart defects may [...]

Exaggerated Blood Pressure in Athletes Report #7014 Several studies suggest that a very high blood pressure rise after hard exercise can may be useful for detecting individuals who will develop high blood pressure in later years. However, this does not apply to athletes and people in good physical shape. High blood pressure usually occurs in [...]

In 1976, 413 high school runners in Finland competed in a 2000-meter race. At the time of the race and in a follow-up study twenty-five years later, the faster runners had much lower blood pressures than the slower ones (International Journal of Sports Medicine, July-August 2005.) The researchers wanted to know whether a maximal endurance [...]

Hello, These are tough situations to know for sure. First of all, if your husbands heart rate increases with exercise to an appropriate level (in his case, probably greater than 140-160) with strenuous exercise, his heart rate is fine. Athletes have slow heart rates because of increased vagal tone associated with fitness. This is a [...]

The product of the pulse rate and the systolic blood pressure is an indication of the power dissipated by your heart. If your arterial condition remains about the same and your body is at rest, this product should be reasonably constant (averaged over the daily cycle). Where there are small changes, they may well be [...]

Blood Pressure Guidelines Medical Author: Benjamin C. Wedro, MD, FACEP, FAAEM Medical Editor: William C. Shiel Jr., MD, FACP, FACR The concept of blood pressure is sometimes difficult to understand because it is usually described with numbers. However, adequate pressure within arteries is important to allow blood to be pumped throughout the body to deliver [...]