You can exercise yourself to death, says new study
By SWNS
October 17, 2017 | 5:52pm |
Updated
Too much exercise can kill you, scientists have revealed.
White men who work out at least 7½ hours a week are nearly twice as likely to suffer from heart disease as those who do a moderate amount, a new study shows.
Researchers in Chicago compared 25-year exercise patterns and made the surprising discovery that very active white men are 86 percent more likely to experience a buildup of plaque in the heart arteries by middle age.
But this didn’t apply to black men, they discovered.
It was suggested that high levels of exercise over time caused stress on the arteries, leading to higher coronary artery calcification, also known as CAC.
However, scientists warned that people should not stop exercising.
The team from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Kaiser Permanente looked at the physical activity trajectories of 3,175 black and white participants in the longterm CARDIA study and assessed the presence of CAC.
“However, this plaque buildup may well be of the more stable kind, and thus less likely to rupture and cause heart attack, which was not evaluated in this study.”
However, he added: “It does not suggest that anyone should stop exercising.”