Intense Weight Lifting Linked To Heart Condition

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High-intensity strength training may lead to a potentially deadly condition

called aortic dissection, in which the heart's major artery tears, according

to a report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

" Dissection happens in a split second, " ...

Aortic dissection may also be associated with other injury, infection,

congenital (present from birth) weakness of the aorta, and collagen

disorders (such as Marfan's syndrome, pseudoxanthoma elasticum,

Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, relapsing polychondritis, or abdominal aortic

aneurysm)....