09 Sep Benefits of Running For Cardiovascular and Chronic Disease Established
MedicalResearch.com Interview with:
Carl “Chip” Lavie MD, FACC FACP, FCCP
Medical Director, Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention
Director, Exercise Laboratories
John Ochsner Heart and Vascular Institute
Professor of Medicine
Ochsner Clinical School-UQ School of Medicine
Jefferson, LA
Editor-in-Chief, Progress in Cardiovascular Diseases
Medical Research: What is the background for this study? What are the main findings?
Dr. Lavie: My co-authors and I reviewed the published literature on the impact of running on chronic diseases and cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality. Although we reviewed substantial running literature, the major 4 studies were from Dr. Paul Williams and 18 of his papers from the National Runners’ and Walkers’ Study, The National Aging Runners Study, 2 papers from the Copenhagen City Heart Study, and 2 reports from DC Lee and Steven Blair and one from the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study.
Medical Research: What should clinicians and patients take away from your report?
Dr. Lavie: This data showed tremendous impact of running to lower weight and prevent obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and type 2 diabetes mellitus. Runners also had less osteoarthritis, need for hip replacement, lower disability with aging, less benign prostatic hypertrophy, lower mortality from several cancers and lower stroke, but the most impressive impact was the large reductions in cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality, particularly the dramatic impacts of quite low running doses.
We also review some of the potential dangers or cardio-toxicity of large running doses, such as marathons and triathlons.
The original paper can be found at: http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/ S0025-6196(15)00621-7/fulltext
An accompanying video is available at https://youtu.be/Ao9_ZC7XwVM.
A press release regarding our paper with links to the paper are found at: http://news.ochsner.org/news-releases/john-ochsner-heart-vascular-institute-research-run-for-your-life-and-to-prevent-chronic-diseases.
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Citation:
Effects of Running on Chronic Diseases and Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality
Carl J. Lavie, MD Duck-chul Lee, PhD Xuemei Sui, MD, PhD, MPH Ross Arena, PhD, PT James H. O’Keefe, MD Timothy S. Church, MD, PhD Richard V. Milani, MD Steven N. Blair, PED
Published Online: September 08, 2015
Publication stage: In Press Corrected Proof
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mayocp.2015.08.001
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MedicalResearch.com Interview with:, & Carl “Chip” Lavie MD (2015). Benefits of Running For Cardiovascular and Chronic Disease Established
Last Updated on September 9, 2015 by Marie Benz MD FAAD