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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on June 13, 2008
European Heart Journal 2008 29(15):1800-1802; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn273
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2008. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

The risk of marathon runners–live it up, run fast, die young?

Axel Schmermund*, Thomas Voigtländer and Bernd Nowak

Cardioangiologisches Centrum Bethanien, Im Prüfling 23, D-60389 Frankfurt am Main, Germany

* Corresponding author. Tel: +49 69 9450 28 0, Fax: +49 69 461613, Email: A.Schmermund@ccb.de

This editorial refers to ‘Running: the risk of coronary events. Prevalence and prognostic relevance of coronary atherosclerosis in marathon runners’{dagger} by S. Möhlenkamp et al., on page 1903

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Marathon running enjoys an astonishing popularity. Because of the enormous number of applicants, it is quite difficult to get a starting place for one of the marathon races in Berlin, London, or New York. Almost every European city appears to have its own marathon race in the months between April and October. Regularly, out of the tens of thousands of runners, one or two succumb to an acute coronary syndrome or sudden arrhythmias.

It is quite evident that the extreme exertion of a marathon race, as mentally rewarding as it may be, offers little benefit in terms of health and longevity. Indeed, in clinically healthy runners, markers of cardiac injury are elevated after a race.1,2 An inverse relationship between myocardial injury and . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Running: the risk of coronary events : Prevalence and prognostic relevance of coronary atherosclerosis in marathon runners
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