title: Endurance Exercise and the Heart: Friend or Foe?
abstract: Although low- to moderate-intensity exercise has well-known cardiovascular benefits, it has been increasingly suggested that prolonged strenuous endurance exercise (SEE) could have potential deleterious cardiac effects. In effect, the term 'cardiac overuse injury' (or 'over-exercise') has been recently reported to group all the possible deleterious cardiac consequences of repeated exposure to SEE or 'over-exercise'. In this article, we provide a balanced overview of the current state of knowledge regarding the 'pros' and 'cons' of SEE from a cardiological point of view.
authors.affiliation: Research Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre ('i+12'), Edificio Actividades Ambulatorias, 6ª Planta, Avda. de Córdoba s/n, 28041, Madrid, Spain. fabian.sanchis@uv.es.
authors.forename: Fabian
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Sanchis-Gomar
authors.affiliation: Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Cardiovasculares (CNIC), Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Laura M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Pérez
authors.affiliation: Department of Anesthesiology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA.
authors.forename: Michael J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Joyner
authors.affiliation: European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations (EFSMA) and German Federation of Sports Medicine, Remscheid, Germany.
authors.forename: Herbert
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Löllgen
authors.affiliation: Research Institute Hospital 12 de Octubre ('i+12'), Edificio Actividades Ambulatorias, 6ª Planta, Avda. de Córdoba s/n, 28041, Madrid, Spain.|European University, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Alejandro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lucia
mesh_terms: D056352:Athletes; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D006321:Heart / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D010807:Physical Endurance / Q000502:physiology*