Cardiac function and autonomic cardiac function during a multistage cycling event: a brief report.

Autor: Menard, Vincent, Barrero, Anna, Lachard, Thibault, Robinault, Lucien, Lingxia Li, Schnell, Frederic, Carré, François, Le Douairon Lahaye, Solène
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Zdroj: Frontiers in Sports & Active Living; 2024, p1-6, 6p
Abstrakt: Introduction: Prolonged and repeated exercise performed during an ultraendurance event can induce general and cardiac fatigue known as exerciseinduced cardiac fatigue. Our objective was to find a possible correlation between the cardiac function and the autonomic cardiac function. Methods: During a multistage ultra-endurance event, a female well-trained cyclist underwent daily rest echocardiography and heart rate variability measurements to assess the cardiac function and the cardiac autonomic function. Results: The athlete completed 3,345 km at 65% of her maximum heart rate and 39% of her maximum aerobic power. A progressive improvement of the systolic function for both the left ventricle and the right ventricle was observed during the event. Discussion: Alterations were observed on the cardiac autonomic function with an imbalance between sympathetic and parasympathetic, but there was no sign of a significant correlation between the cardiac function and the autonomic cardiac function and no signs of cardiac fatigue either. Further analysis should be performed on a larger sample to confirm the obtained results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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