{"id":8446,"date":"2019-10-21T18:46:47","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T18:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2019\/10\/21\/cardiovascular-disease\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:30:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:30:19","slug":"cardiovascular-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/cardiovascular-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Why some US football players have higher cardiovascular risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Clark, Furman University assistant athletics director and associate director of sports medicine is among a cohort of researches who studied the effects of rapid weight gain among college football linemen. The study was published in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamacardiology\/article-abstract\/2752890\">JAMA Cardiology<\/a><\/strong> and was based on the analysis of 126 athletes over three years.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers found that collegiate football players who gain weight and develop increased systolic blood pressure are at risk for the development of a pathologic cardiovascular phenotype characterized by concentric left ventricular enlargement, arterial stiffening and reduced left ventricular diastolic function.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"display: inline !important; float: none; background-color: #ffffff; color: #333333; cursor: text; font-family: Georgia,'Times New Roman','Bitstream Charter',Times,serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;\">Other institutions involved in the research include <\/span>Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute, Georgia Institute of Technology and Massachusetts General Hospital. The study was also picked up by <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/scienmag.com\/study-suggests-why-some-us-football-players-have-higher-cardiovascular-risk\/\">SCIENMAG<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>(Science Magazine).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Craig Clark, Furman University assistant athletics director and associate director of sports medicine is among a cohort of researches who studied the effects of rapid weight gain among college football [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":8447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,24,21,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-athletics","category-health-sciences","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}