List of former elite runners who died of heart attacks

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I asked my cardiologist how someone with such blockages could still run and not have symptoms. He explained that the blockages form gradually over time and heart of many distance runners adapts and becomes super-efficient - operating at an incredibly reduced capacity, but still getting the job done...until of course, the plaque ruptures and all hell breaks loose.

My heart apparently grew a collateral artery to go around the blockage, which I guess helped at least delay the heart attack and/or made it less bad.

China study misinformation wrote:

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1955 wrote:

I asked my cardiologist how someone with such blockages could still run and not have symptoms. He explained that the blockages form gradually over time and heart of many distance runners adapts and becomes super-efficient - operating at an incredibly reduced capacity, but still getting the job done...until of course, the plaque ruptures and all hell breaks loose.

My heart apparently grew a collateral artery to go around the blockage, which I guess helped at least delay the heart attack and/or made it less bad.

I was only 48 when I had my heart attack so my heart was strong from running but did not have time to develop collateral circulation. My 100% blockage happened when a plaque ruptured. I was running remarkably well until about 10 days before my event. That's when I started to have some symptoms.

Nonsense wrote:

I was only 48 when I had my heart attack so my heart was strong from running but did not have time to develop collateral circulation. My 100% blockage happened when a plaque ruptured. I was running remarkably well until about 10 days before my event. That's when I started to have some symptoms.

What were some of your symptoms? Any family history of heart disease?

Inquiry minds want to know wrote:

Nonsense wrote:

I was only 48 when I had my heart attack so my heart was strong from running but did not have time to develop collateral circulation. My 100% blockage happened when a plaque ruptured. I was running remarkably well until about 10 days before my event. That's when I started to have some symptoms.

What were some of your symptoms? Any family history of heart disease?

Father had heart attack at age 55. Symptoms were mainly indigestion / heartburn after running and with stress for about a week to 10 days before heart attack. Had stopped running last few days because I generally wasn't feeling well.

Surely the Olympic champ can be considered elite?

Spiridon Louis

January 12, 1873 - March 26, 1940

Inquiry minds want to know wrote:

Nonsense wrote:

I was only 48 when I had my heart attack so my heart was strong from running but did not have time to develop collateral circulation. My 100% blockage happened when a plaque ruptured. I was running remarkably well until about 10 days before my event. That's when I started to have some symptoms.

What were some of your symptoms? Any family history of heart disease?

For me, I had no symptoms and no family history, until it hit on a run. Even then, I wasn't quite sure what it was: no crushing pain, nothing radiating into arm, etc. But I knew something was off (although it took 3 days, and a worse wave of symptoms (fatigue, pallor, shaking) but I let wife take me to ER (as she'd wanted to all along).