MEDICAL FALLACY.
ENLARGEMENT OF HEART
IN CASE OF ATHLETES,
Received July 23. 12.55 p.m. LONDON, July 22
The enlargement of the heart of athletes is a fallacy, according to investigations made by three Australian research scientists whose two years’ study of Melbourne University oarsmen shows that, while there might be a slight enlargement during exercise, the normal heart becomes smaller after the exercise than when resting. British specialists, quoting the Australians in the medical journal, the Lancet, declare that they have never seen a strained heart and that muscular effort resulting in cardiac injury is greatly exaggerated.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 199, 23 July 1937, Page 8
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