Ori Fridlich

PhD student for medical research at Hebrew U in Jerusalem

[Ori Fridlich @orifridlich]

@chapdoc1 I was concerned that people might misinterpret a message from this paper that marathons cause cardiac damage. indeed I heard such a few..

[Ori Fridlich @orifridlich]

@chapdoc1 Thanks for sharing this Andrew!
I believe you've captured an accurate interpretation. The amount of cardiomyocyte death we see by our sensitive markers is negligible and certainly not equivalent to the "frightening" elevated troponin levels observed after extreme physical effort.