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What's considered to be a fatal elevated heart rate?
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Depends: It depends on many factors. A healthy youngster can run the track smiling with a heart rate of 200 which could kill an older person with advanced heart disease. Very generally, no one is going to tolerate a rate of >220 for very long.
Answered 10/6/2018
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