Here are a few things I found interesting, either about heart health, running, or the intersection thereof.
I really liked this read from UCLA health on the heart related benefits of the sauna, which isn’t exactly what I would have expected. Several interesting points but this is probably the most interesting:
One study followed 2,300 sauna bathers for 20 years and found that the participants who visited the sauna more frequently (four to seven times a week) had lower death rates from heart disease and stroke.
This next read on Running and Chronic Illness is interesting though it really is targeted more towards people managing pain, which doesn’t directly apply to me.
There isn’t anything particularly surprising on this read on Biological vs Chronological Age, but I did find the bit on stress worth reading:
For some, however, stress isn’t transient, and displays a more permanent effect on aging. Those with longstanding mental health conditions like depression, anxiety, and bipolar disorder are routinely biologically older than their chronological age, according to recent research presented at the European Congress of Psychiatry in Paris.
Coronary arterial disease and heart attacks are rare before the age of 40, so a study as large as this one was needed to see the relationship between mental health and such an unusual occurrence in young people, she said.
Another read on “too much exercise bad for your heart“.
Reading about accelerated cognitive decline after heart attack is not encouraging.
Possible explanations may include depression after having a heart attack, which has been linked to dementia, they said. Chronic inflammation, blood pressure abnormalities and small blood vessel disease, which are also linked to dementia, may be contributing causes as well, they said.
This is good news for me, as I recently started a lifting regimen. Strong leg muscles improve post heart attack outcomes :
The researchers analyzed the strength of the quadricep muscles – in the fronts of the thighs – of 932 people ages 57 to 74 who had been hospitalized due to heart attack between 2007 and 2020. They found that the incidence rate of subsequent heart failure was higher, at 22.9 per 1,000 person-years, among the patients whose quadriceps measured as having low strength, compared with an incidence rate of 10.2 per 1,000 person-years among those with high quadriceps strength. Person-years are a measurement that represents the number of people in a study multiplied by the years following them.
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