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What is different btwn cardio workout and stressful situations where hr goes to 150? both train the heart, but one is healthy and the other is not?

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Dr. Harinder Gill answered

Specializes in Cardiology

Exercise, stress: stress involves a wide variety of internal physiologic changes that alter the organism internally widely including adverse changes in immune function, inducing endothelial vascular dysfunction etc. Mediated via a variety of hormonal and neurotransmitter mechanisms. Physical exercise for purposes of cardiovascular conditioning does not trigger all of the same mechanisms and is thus preferred

Answered 3/5/2015

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