My mom just called me kinda freakin out cause she read this article...I know its pretty far fetched, what are your coments
Released December 3, 2003
Yale-New Haven Hospital news release
<<...OLE_Obj...>> Yale-New Haven Hospital surgeons link potential cardiac hazard with weight
lifting and strength training
<<...OLE_Obj...>> For more information, call 203-688-2493 or E-mail Mark D'Antonio
<dantonmr@ynhh.org>
Cardiothoracic surgeons at Yale-New Haven Hospital have identified a
possible link between serious cardiac problems and weight lifting and
strength training. The study
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hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=elefteriades&search id=1070568324256_5117&stor
ed_search=&FIRSTINDEX=0&journalcode=jama> appeared in the December 3, 2003
issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Dr. John Elefteriades, chief of cardiothoracic surgery at Yale-New Haven
Hospital, spearheaded the study. The YNHH team identified five healthy young
individuals who suffered a devastating cardiac event called "aortic
dissection" during weight lifting or strength training. They discovered that
during weight lifting and strength training, blood pressure, which is
normally about 120/80, rose to as high as 300 during heavy weight lifting.
In particular, these dangerous blood pressure increases occurred when
lifting amounts equivalent to one's own body weight in the bench press. The
team concluded that the dramatic rise in blood pressure from intense
strength training and weight lifting ruptures the internal layer of the
aorta, inducing devastating aortic dissection. Aortic dissection involves
the splitting of the walls of the aorta, the largest blood vessel in the
body, allowing blood under pressure to enter between the layers. The
condition causes a severe, knife-like pain, the most severe pain the body
can feel, and is lethal unless immediate surgery is performed.
"Our research and findings indicate that there is a very real health danger
for people who lift exceedingly heavy weight due to the increased stress
that it places on the aorta," said Dr. Elefteriades. "Although there is a
clear association between aortic dissection and weight lifting in our
findings, this is not a reason to avoid weight lifting and strength
training, which can be healthy and beneficial. It should also be pointed out
that the number of people who lift weights is very large, while the number
of identified cases of weight lifting causing aortic dissection is small."
The study also recommends greater care be taken by those who lift weights
and have a history of aneurysms in their family, as well as individuals over
the age of 40 whose blood vessels are less elastic and are unable to
accommodate the strain as readily.
<<...OLE_Obj...>> Yale-New Haven Hospital is a 944-bed, not-for-profit hospital serving as the
primary teaching hospital for the Yale School of Medicine. Yale-New Haven
was founded as the fourth voluntary hospital in the U.S. in 1826 and today,
the hospital complex includes Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital and
Yale-New Haven Psychiatric Hospital, with a combined medical staff of about
2,400 university and community physicians practicing in more than 100
specialties.
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