{"id":963,"date":"2018-09-25T16:55:45","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T20:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/manhattancardiology.com\/young-fit-athletes-still-carry-cvd-risk\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T04:51:19","slug":"young-fit-athletes-still-carry-cvd-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manhattancardiology.com\/es\/blog\/young-fit-athletes-still-carry-cvd-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"Young, fit athletes still carry CVD risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>One of our Cardiologists and co-founder of LabFinder, <a href=\"\/es\/team\/robert-segal-md\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rober Segal, MD<\/a>, was quoted in a Healio article about cardiovascular disease risk in athletes.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1955\" src=\"https:\/\/manhattancardiology.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/reduce-high-blood-pressure-or-hypertension-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"reduce high blood pressure or hypertension\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" \/>Researchers found that 11% of \u201cmaster\u201d athletes had CVD, according to a study recently published in BMJ Open Sport &amp; Exercise Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI noticed that young, fit individuals were having heart attacks and I wanted to know why,\u201d Barbara N. Morrison, PhD student in experimental medicine at the University of British Columbia in Canada, told Healio Family Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers performed preparticipation screening on 798 master athletes who had engaged in moderate to vigorous intensity physical activity at least 3 days per week during the previous 3 months. The screening included the American Heart Association\u2019s 14 element recommendations, an ECG and Framingham Risk Score.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison noted that though using imaging tests would have been ideal, the lack of sufficient evidence justifying the tests\u2019 use, as well as the tests\u2019 potential risk, cost, and time commitment negated this possibility.<\/p>\n<p>Of the participants, 62.7% were men and 87.7% were white. The mean age of the participants was 54.6 years. The participants had an average of 35.1 years of physical activity experience and metabolic equivalent of approximately 80.8 task hours per week.<\/p>\n<p>Morrison and colleagues found that CVD was detected in 11.4%, with coronary artery disease being the most common diagnosis (7.9%). In addition, 8.5% of all participants had Framingham Risk Scores of greater than 20%, and 90% showed no CVD symptoms. Researchers found that 11% of \u201cmaster\u201d athletes had CVD, according to a study recently published in BMJ Open Sport &amp; Exercise Medicine. \u201cNotably, 10 participants had a blockage of 70% or greater and did not have any symptoms,\u201d Morrison said as she discussed the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we know exercise is good for us and can prevent a range of health problems and disease, we found that middle-aged athletes are not immune to cardiovascular disease,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>The findings in this study correlate with other research that has shown the number of factors that contribute to a patient\u2019s CVD risk, according to <a href=\"\/es\/team\/robert-segal-md\/\">Robert Segal, MD.<\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Read the original article placement on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healio.com\/family-medicine\/nutrition-and-fitness\/news\/online\/%7Ba9e6d749-62ee-4b91-a7da-7a21487170fc%7D\/young-fit-athletes-still-carry-cvd-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Healio<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of our Cardiologists and co-founder of LabFinder, Rober Segal, MD, was quoted in a Healio article about cardiovascular disease risk in athletes.\u00a0 Researchers found that 11% of \u201cmaster\u201d athletes had CVD, according to a study recently published in BMJ Open Sport &amp; Exercise Medicine. \u201cI noticed that young, fit individuals were having heart attacks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[125,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Young Athletes &amp; CVD Risk | Manhattan Cardiology<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Manhattan Cardiology explores the surprising connection and provides insights for maintaining heart health in athletes. 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