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Episode 215: The Extreme Exercise Hypothesis

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Is an Elevated CAC Score a Heart Disease?

An increased CAC score in the general non-exercising or insufficiently active population does... Pretty useful for predicting heart disease, particularly in risky populations. But an elevated CAC scores in an athlete, particularly one who's involved in lots of endurance exercise, we don't really know. And again, just like I said earlier on the myocardial fibrosis, I scoured the internets for resistance training's effect on coronary artery calcification and came up empty handed.

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