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Cardiology Management

Marathon-running-not-a-risk-factor-for-atherosclerosis

2017 12 Jun

Here's good news for runners. A new study published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology finds that running multiple marathons does not increase the risk of atherosclerosis. "Previous studies found that after running a marathon, the same cardiac biomarkers were acutely elevated as after a heart attack," said lead author Dr. Axel Pressler,...Read more