Publications by authors named "Thibault Lachard"

Introduction: Prolonged and repeated exercise performed during an ultra-endurance event can induce general and cardiac fatigue known as exercise-induced cardiac fatigue. Our objective was to find a possible correlation between the cardiac function and the autonomic cardiac function.

Methods: During a multistage ultra-endurance event, a female well-trained cyclist underwent daily rest echocardiography and heart rate variability measurements to assess the cardiac function and the cardiac autonomic function.

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Purpose: Effects of intense and/or prolonged exercise have been studied extensively in male athletes. Nevertheless, data are scare on the effect of long duration events on cardiac function in female athletes. Our aim was to investigate the effect of a long-lasting moderate-intensity stage cycling event on cardiac function of young female athletes.

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Article Synopsis
  • This study examined the occurrence of adverse cardiac events in top-ranked male and female athletes from various Olympic sports between 2006 and 2018.
  • Out of 2,471 athletes, a low prevalence of 0.61% for cardiac events was found, mostly consisting of arrhythmias, with a notable number occurring in male endurance athletes, particularly short-distance triathletes.
  • The findings suggest a higher-than-expected rate of cardiac issues in elite endurance sports, indicating a need for more extensive long-term studies to understand cardiovascular risks in these athletes.
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Echocardiographic signs of exercise-induced cardiac fatigue (EICF) have been described after strenuous endurance exercise. Nevertheless, few data are available on the effects of repeated strenuous exercise, especially when associated with other constraints as sleep deprivation or mental stress which occur during military selection boot camps. Furthermore, we aimed to study the influence of experience and training level on potential EICF signs.

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