ReviewCurrent treatment options in cardiovascular medicine2018
The Female Athlete's Heart: Facts and Fallacies.
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- Sex Matters: A Comprehensive Comparison of Female and Male Hearts.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Pooled it
- Differential diagnosis between 'athlete's heart' and cardiomyopathies.The British journal of cardiology · 2025Article
- Morphological, functional and biochemical differences in cardiac adaptation to endurance exercise among male and female amateur marathon runners.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
- Global longitudinal active strain energy density (GLASED): age and sex differences between young and veteran athletes.Echo research and practice · 2024Article
- Racial and Gender Differences in Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Atrial Fibrillation.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Review
- Differences in cardiac adaptation to exercise in male and female athletes assessed by noninvasive techniques: a state-of-the-art review.American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology · 2024Review
- Allometric scaling for left ventricular mass and geometry in male and female athletes of mixed and endurance sports.Echo research and practice · 2024Article
- Cardiac remodeling in elite young Asian female soccer players.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2024Article
- Sex differences in the associations between right heart structure and peak exercise capacity parameters in amateur cyclists.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Article
- Prevalence of electrocardiographic markers associated with myocardial fibrosis in masters athletes: a cohort study.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2024Article
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- Atrial Fibrillation in Endurance Training Athletes: Scoping Review.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Article
- Could Repeated Cardio-Renal Injury Trigger Late Cardiovascular Sequelae in Extreme Endurance Athletes?Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Review
- Cardiodiagnostic sex-specific differences of the female athlete in sports cardiology.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2022Article
- Exercise-Induced Atrial Remodeling in Female Amateur Marathon Runners Assessed by Three-Dimensional and Speckle Tracking Echocardiography.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Sex-Specific Impacts of Exercise on Cardiovascular Remodeling.Journal of clinical medicine · 2021Review
- Gender Difference of Cardiac Remodeling in University Athletes: Results from 2015 Gwangju Summer Universiade.Korean circulation journal · 2021Article
- The Underrepresentation of Females in Studies Assessing the Impact of High-Dose Exercise on Cardiovascular Outcomes: a Scoping Review.Sports medicine - open · 2021Article
- Balanced Intense Exercise Training Induces Atrial Oxidative Stress Counterbalanced by the Antioxidant System and Atrial Hypertrophy That Is Not Associated with Pathological Remodeling or Arrhythmogenicity.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Diagnostic electrophysiological study in a highly trained young woman with presyncopal symptoms during exercise: a case report.Annals of translational medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
purpose of the reviewFor many years, competitive sport has been dominated by men. Recent times have witnessed a significant increase in women participating in elite sports. As most studies investigated male athletes, with few reports on female counterparts, it is crucial to have a better understanding on physiological cardiac adaptation to exercise in female athletes, to distinguish normal phenotypes from potentially fatal cardiac diseases. This review reports on cardiac adaptation to exercise in females. RECENT
findingsRecent studies show that electrical, structural, and functional cardiac changes due to physiological adaptation to exercise differ in male and female athletes. Women tend to exhibit eccentric hypertrophy, and while concentric hypertrophy or concentric remodeling may be a normal finding in male athletes, it should be evaluated carefully in female athletes as it may be a sign of pathology. Although few studies on veteran female athletes are available, women seem to be affected by atrial fibrillation, coronary atherosclerosis, and myocardial fibrosis less than male counterparts. Males and females exhibit many biological, anatomical, and hormonal differences, and cardiac adaptation to exercise is no exception. The increasing participation of women in sports should stimulate the scientific community to develop large, longitudinal studies aimed at a better understanding of cardiac adaptation to exercise in female athletes.
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