Montreal – Is running a marathon good for you or can it damage the heart?
A team of researchers and runners from the Heart and Stroke Foundation have come up with a practical way of answering the question. They used data from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to find out what is really going on in the marathoner’s heart as the kilometers pile up.
“Marathon runners can be a lot less fit than they think,” Dr. Eric Larose today told the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress 2010, co-hosted by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.
To read the full, original article click on this link: Marathons damage the hearts of less fit runners for up to 3 months | Science Blog
