Running with a Healthy Heart

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• 07/15/14     The New Yorker           "Extreme Exercise and the Heart"

• 05/18/14     Dr. John Mandrola       "Exercise, over-indulgence and atrial fibrillation — seeing the obvious"

• 04/10/14     Women's Health          "Is It Possible to Run Too Much?"

• 04/01/14     WebMD                         "Too Much Running Tied to Shorter Life Span"

• 03/26/14     Wall Street Journal       "Why Runners Can't Eat Whatever They Want"

• 03/23/14     Runners World             "Heart Risk? Marathoners Have Increased Artery Plaque"

• 03/15/14     Missouri Medicine       "Marathon training/racing is paradoxically associated with increased coronary plaque volume"

• 03/01/14     Missouri Medicine       "Coronary Artery Plaque and Cardiotoxicity As a Result of Extreme Endurance Exercise"

• 12/29/13     Down Backstretch       "Staying Alive - Healthy vs. Fit "

• 12/05/13     New York Times           "Endurance Exercise and Life Span"

• 10/17/13     Active.com                    "New study cites link between marathon running and some heart-attack factors"

• 08/23/13     Peak Fitness                 "Extreme Endurance Exercise: If You Do This Type of Exercise, You Could Be Damaging Your Heart"

• 05/28/13     Mesa Aquatics             "The Exercise Equivalent of a Cheeseburger?"

• 05/26/13     Triathlete                      "Are You Fit to Race Triathlons?"

• 02/01/13     Active.com                    "Why Too Much Running Is Bad for Your Health"

• 11/28/12     Runners World             "The Too Much Running Myth Rises Again"

• 11/27/12     Wall Street Journal       "One Running Shoe in the Grave"

• 07/01/12     PubMed.gov                 "Cardiovascular damage resulting from chronic excessive endurance exercise"

• 06/10/12     Mayo Clinic                   "Potential adverse cardiovascular effects from excessive endurance exercise"

• 06/05/12     Runners World             "Second Thoughts on Too Much Running"

• 06/01/12     Peak Fitness                  "Too Much Cardio Can Cause a 7-Fold Surge of Heart Problems"

• 10/05/11     Heart Journal                 "Exercise-induced right ventricular dysfunction and structural remodelling in endurance athletes"

• 06/01/11     PubMed.gov                  "Diverse patterns of myocardial fibrosis in lifelong, veteran endurance athletes"

• 06/10/11     Peak Fitness                  "The Marathon Myth: Is It the Quickest Way to a Heart Attack?"

• 03/09/11     New York Times           "When Exercise Is Too Much of a Good Thing"

• 01/18/11     Runners World             "Exercise is the Fountain of Youth"

• 03/20/10     ABC News                      "The Agony of Long-Distance Runners: Coronary Plaque"

• 06/13/08     Heart Journal                "The risk of marathon runners–live it up, run fast, die young?"

• 03/14/07     Univ. Maryland             "Researchers Find Heart Disease in a Marathon Runner: Is Too Much Exercise a Bad Thing?"

  

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Listed below are links to several articles that provide the latest information on this topic.

Cardiologist James O'Keefe at TEDx