exercise, blood tests and heart attacks

[alfresco]

My wife just passed this along to me and I thought this might
be worth sharing with the group. It has to do with the . . .

"poorly understood but surprisingly common phenomenon:
blood tested shortly after a long or strenuous bout of exercise
is likely to show abnormalities, maybe even indicators of a
heart attack or liver failure"

To those of you that do get your blood tested, you may want to
consider this advice.

"To avoid false alarms . . . avoid lab tests within 24 hours of exercise.
If not, he said, “you are asking for abnormalities to be detected.”"

And while this study cites mostly endurance athletes, who really
knows the effects of strenuous lifting, steroids, extreme diets, and
lord knows what else that is employed by some bodybuilders when
you get your blood drawn shortly after exercising.

Is it worth the risk? I don't know but it is certainly food for thought.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/27/h...html?scp=1&sq=heart attack blood tests&st=cse

 

[muscledoc1]

I can attset to that,agree 100%.