Cardiac Output and Performance during a Marathon Race in Middle-Aged Recreational Runners

Purpose. Despite the increasing popularity of marathon running, there are no data on the responses of stroke volume (SV) and cardiac output (CO) to exercise in this context. We sought to establish whether marathon performance is associated with the ability to sustain high fractional use of maximal S...

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Main Authors: Véronique L. Billat, Hélène Petot, Morgan Landrain, Renaud Meilland, Jean Pierre Koralsztein, Laurence Mille-Hamard
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Hindawi Limited 2012-01-01
Series:The Scientific World Journal
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/2012/810859