The link is worthless. Some researchers say runners live long ... because their model says runners live long. Tautology.
Why didn't they just look at dead olympic athletes? That would be an interesting and potentially worthwhile study. Actually, I know why: that study would have been hard work whereas for this garbage all they had to do was plug a canned data set into some silly unverified pharma model they tweaked for their own agenda.
"The current report demonstrates a high prevalence of advanced
coronary atherosclerosis and myocardial scar formation in see-
mingly healthy marathon runners aged >50 years."
Why didn't they just look at dead olympic athletes? That would be an interesting and potentially worthwhile study. Actually, I know why: that study would have been hard work whereas for this garbage all they had to do was plug a canned data set into some silly unverified pharma model they tweaked for their own agenda.
http://www.theheart.org/article/243897.do
Endurance sports can mess up your heart rhythm.
Here's the first google result for "runners die young": http://eurheartj.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/ehn273v1.pdf
"The current report demonstrates a high prevalence of advanced coronary atherosclerosis and myocardial scar formation in see- mingly healthy marathon runners aged >50 years."