Heart Beat: Exercise and cardiac arrest
Heart Beat
Women: Don't skip exercising because you're worried that your heart will slip into a potentially deadly rhythm and stop beating while you are out walking, jogging, or whatever. The chances of this happening are slim. Data from the ongoing Nurses' Health Study indicate that for every 36 million woman-hours of moderate to vigorous exercise, just one woman has a sudden cardiac arrest. The rates for men are significantly higher.
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