Cardiac Output and Performance during a Marathon Race in Middle-Aged Recreational Runners

Véronique Billat, Hélène Petot, Morgan Landrain, Renaud Meilland, J. P. Koralsztein, Laurence Mille-Hamard

The Scientific World JOURNAL · 2012 · 38 citations · 27 references

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Abstract

Our results showed that marathon performance is inversely correlated with cardiac cost and positively correlated with cardiac endurance. The CO response could be a benchmark for race performance in recreational marathon runners.

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