weightlifters be careful
August 3, 2006If you regularly lift more than half your body weight, doctors advise that you’d best get your heart checked. Young and healthy lifters are in danger of torn aortas if they have an undiagnosed aneurysm or an enlargement of the aorta.
Unfortunately, death often occurs because doctors do not think to look for a torn aorta when fit young men show up in the emergency room with chest pains.
