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athlete's heart [ath′lēts] an enlarged but otherwise normal heart of an athlete trained for endurance. It is characterized by a low heart rate, an increased pumping capacity, and a greater ability to deliver oxygen to skeletal muscles. It may sometimes be confused with left ventricular hypertrophy. Also called athletic heart syndrome (AHS). athlete's heart Athletic heart syndrome Sports medicine A heart typical of trained athletes, and characterized by ↑ left ventricular diastolic volume and ↑ thickness of the left ventricular wall, as seen by 2-D
echocardiography; arrhythmias seen in athletes' hearts are usually benign and include sinus bradycardia, wandering pacemaker, cardiac blocks, nodal rhythm, atrial fibrillation, ST segment and T-wave changes, ↑ P wave amplitude, right
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These devices measure how many times an athlete's heart beats per minute. has developed several proprietary technologies that accurately measure and display an athlete's heart rate, even during vigorous exercise, without the need of a chest strap transmitter or any other extraneous cuffs or clips. |
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