Researchers from Los Angeles discovered a potential explanation behind why people in the best shape of their lives are suffering from cardiac conditions: hypertension, or high blood pressure.
Elite athletes may be in top physical shape, able to sprint, lift and play at the highest level of their sport, but a shock study shows they are at higher risk of deadly cardiovascular complications.
Events like this come as a shock as people wonder how premier athletes suffer a medical event associated with poor diet, obesity and a multitude of other poor comorbidities. Presenting findings at the American College of Cardiology’s Care of the Athletic Heart conference, a researcher from the University of Los Angeles Medical Center found nearly half of athletes suffered from elevated blood pressure - with multi-sport athletes and basketball players most at risk.But athletes much younger than the average hypertension patient are still suffering from the condition.
A difference in diets to maintain peak performance may also play a role, with different calorie, fat and protein ratios consumed by different players. Blood pressure is measured in two numbers in millimeters of mercury . The first number represents the pressure caused by the heart beating and pushing blood through arteries and the second is pressure in arteries as the heart relaxes between beats.Prehypertension is 120 to 129/less than 80. Stage one is 130 to 139/80 to 89 mm Hg and stage two is more than 140/more than 90.
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