Get Fit to Ski or risk a Heart Attack
Get Fit to Ski or risk a Heart Attack
Published : 01-Sep-2010 12:47
A report on the Telegraph website highlights the risk of not preparing for your ski holiday...Research by Innsbruck University, studying 1500 patients admitted to hospital with heart symptoms during the past five ski seasons, has uncovered the following thought-provoking statistics :-
Dr Bernhard Metzler, associate professor of cardiology at the university, said: "Every year millions of tourists visit the Tyrolean Alps to participate in a variety of winter sports, each of which carries a certain risk of accident and injury.
"Sudden cardiac death accounts for a staggering 40 per cent of the total fatalities amongst winter sports tourists in the Austrian Alps and of these acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) is the leading cause."
In conclusion...
The authors recommended that people planning a ski trip should prepare carefully and gradually increase their regular physical activity. Once on holiday the time spent skiing should also be increased gradually, they said.
So get on yer bikes! :shock:
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