{"id":58431,"date":"2017-10-19T15:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T07:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/?p=58431"},"modified":"2017-10-19T11:10:45","modified_gmt":"2017-10-19T03:10:45","slug":"study-says-excessive-exercise-may-harm-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/for-him\/study-says-excessive-exercise-may-harm-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Says Excessive Exercise May Do More Harm Than Good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new\u00a0study conducted by\u00a0a team of researchers\u00a0from the University of Illinois at Chicago and\u00a0Kaiser Permanente, white men who work out at least seven-and-a-half hours a week were 86% more likely to develop plaques in the coronary arteries than those who do a moderate amount.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers compared 25-year exercise patterns from 1985 through 2011, starting at age 18 to 30 and finishing at 43 to 55, and made the\u00a0shocking discovery. However, this was not the case in black men, they discovered.<\/p>\n<p>Published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings, the study suggested high levels of exercise over time caused stress on the arteries leading to higher coronary artery calcification (CAC).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58436\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58436\" style=\"width: 1328px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58436\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101717-exercise-1.jpg\" alt=\"Image: iStockPhoto\" width=\"1328\" height=\"882\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101717-exercise-1.jpg 1328w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101717-exercise-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101717-exercise-1-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101717-exercise-1-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101717-exercise-1-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101717-exercise-1-696x462.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101717-exercise-1-1068x709.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101717-exercise-1-632x420.jpg 632w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1328px) 100vw, 1328px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58436\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image: iStockPhoto<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The team from the University of Illinois at Chicago and Kaiser Permanente looked at data of 3,175 black and white participants in the long term Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study and assessed the presence of CAC.<\/p>\n<p>CAC\u00a0was measured with CT scans, which is known to be a good predictor of future heart disease. Participants\u2019 blood fats, fasting glucose and cholesterol were also measured at each time point.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers split participants into three distinct groups, based on physical activity patterns.<\/p>\n<p>Group one was defined as exercising below the national guidelines of less than 150 minutes a week, group two as meeting the national guidelines of 150 minutes a week and group three was exercising three times above the national guidelines of over 450 minutes a week.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, those in group three were 27%\u00a0more likely than those in group one to develop CAC by middle age. When these findings were divided by race and gender, they found that white men were at the highest risk as they were 86% more likely to have CAC. There was no higher odds of CAC for black participants who exercised at this level, and while there was a similar trend for white women, it was not statistically significant.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_58437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58437\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58437\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cholesterol-artery.jpg\" alt=\"Cholesterol plaque in artery image.\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cholesterol-artery.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cholesterol-artery-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cholesterol-artery-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cholesterol-artery-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cholesterol-artery-696x464.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/cholesterol-artery-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cholesterol plaque in artery image.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The presence and amount of CAC is a significant warning sign to doctors that a patient may be at risk for developing heart disease and a signal to consider early preventive care.<\/p>\n<p>Deepika Laddu, assistant professor of physical therapy at the UIC College of Applied Health Sciences\u00a0said, \u201cWe expected to see that higher levels of physical activity over time would be associated with lower levels of CAC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unique to the new study is the evaluation of long-term exercise patterns, from young adulthood into middle age.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHigh levels of exercise over time may cause stress on the arteries leading to higher CAC,\u201d said study co-author Dr. Jamal Rana, a cardiologist at Kaiser Permanente \u201cHowever this plaque buildup may well be of the more stable kind, and thus less likely to rupture and causes heart attack, which was not evaluated in this study.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>However, he added, \u201cIt does not suggest that anyone should stop exercising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read also:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pamper.my\/news\/beauty\/beauty-sleep-may-not-beneficial-think\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beauty Sleep May Not Be\u00a0Beneficial As What You Think<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8211; Cover Image:\u00a0boemagazine.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a new\u00a0study conducted by\u00a0a team of researchers\u00a0from the University of Illinois at Chicago and\u00a0Kaiser Permanente, white men who work out at least seven-and-a-half hours a week were 86% more likely to develop plaques in the coronary arteries than those who do a moderate amount. 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