The Munich Triathlon Heart Study: Ventricular Function, Myocardial Velocities, and Two-Dimensional Strain in Healthy Children Before and After Endurance Stress

Intense exercise has been shown to have negative effects on systolic and diastolic ventricular function in adults. Very little is known about the normal reaction of the growing heart to endurance stress. For this study, 26 healthy children (18 males) with a mean age of 12.61 years (range, 7.92–16.42...

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