Heart Rate During and After Exercise Tied to Sudden Death

Heart Rate During and After Exercise Tied to Sudden Death

So essentially the higher rate you can go and the faster it drops, the better!

"Men whose heart rate increased less than 89 beats per minute during a standard exercise test for heart patients...had six times the risk of sudden death over the next two decades....Men whose heart rate decreased less than 25 beats in the minute after they stopped the exercise test had more than double the risk of sudden death than those whose rate returned to normal faster.

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The findings appear in the May 12 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine"