HYour heart’s response to exercise largely depends on whether you’re male or female, according to a new study funded by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) and presented at the Cardiovascular Society conference British in Manchester today. And older male endurance athletes may be losing the race for heart health, as researchers from the Barts Heart Center at St Bartholomew’s Hospital, St George’s Hospital and University College London found that their vascular age is almost ten years older than their chronological age, while the hearts of female athletes showed no such signs of accelerated aging.
More than 300 competitive “master” athletes in their forties and older, all of whom had trained to run, bike, swim and
