A METHOD OF TESTING CARDIAC FUNCTION
Authors: Dan G. Stine
Journal: Annals of Internal Medicine (1939)

Article1 November 1939A METHOD OF TESTING CARDIAC FUNCTIONDAN G. STINE, M.D., F.A.C.P.DAN G. STINE, M.D., F.A.C.P.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-13-5-807 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptTHE PROBLEMFor a period of 10 years we have interested ourselves in the effect of athletic exercise upon the heart. These observations, on more than 400 athletes during their university residence, were presented to the American Student Health Association at its 1937 meeting in Chicago and were published in the Proceedings of the organization.The result of these observations indicated definitely that the response of the heart to exercise depended not upon the exercise but upon the integrity of the heart's mechanism, and that hearts with slight departures from perfection in their mechanism were much more common among athletes...Bibliography1. WILLIAMSON CS: The effect of exercise on the normal and pathological heart, Am. Jr. Med. Sci., 1909, cxxxviii, 549. Google Scholar2. SHATTUCK GC: Cardiac enlargement, Boston Med. and Surg. Jr., 1916, clxxiv, 384. CrossrefGoogle Scholar3. JOSEPHS DR: Ratio between the heart weight and body weight in various animals, Jr. Exper. Med., 1908, x, 521. CrossrefGoogle Scholar4. DEUTSCHKAUF FE: Heart and athletics (Translation by L. M. Warfield), 1927, C. V. 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