Originally Posted by
cyclintom
"Scientists are calling for widespread heart screening of people before they begin weight training. That's based on new evidence that lifting more than half your body weight could put you at risk of sudden death.
Yale New Haven Hospital surgeon John Elefteriades and colleagues report in an advance online study in the journal Cardiology that they've documented a link between heavy lifting and torn aortas—the heart's main artery—in young, healthy patients who had previously undiagnosed aneurysms, or enlargement of the aorta.
In a group of 31 patients who had an undetected aneurysm and subsequent torn aorta from heavy lifting, 10 of them died. Elefteriades defines heavy lifting as lifting more than half your body weight."
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The key phrase in this is "
young, healthy patients who had previously undiagnosed aneurysms, or enlargement of the aorta". These weren't normal, healthy people, they had cardiovascular abnormalities before they started lifting. Even if they didn't lift, they could have had an aortic tear from any sort of physical or emotional stress, including vigorous sex.
https://medicine.yale.edu/aorta/news...e.aspx?id=4082
"Elefteriades, who enjoys weightlifting, notes that he and his team strongly encourage weight training to maintain muscle mass and bone health."
https://discovermagazine.com/2006/jul/weightlifting