mike8675309
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52bpm 51 years old, cardio workouts 2-3 x a week for the past 2 years, and I'm a runner. High resting heart rates are an indicator of atherosclerosis (thickening of the arteries) and should get checked out. High resting heart rate can be genetic as well, but still, you should get checked out as doctors will put you on meds to drop the heart rate. A high resting heart rate is directly correlated to negative health outcomes.
Resting heart rate and the risk of hypertension and heart failure: a dose-response meta-analysis of prospective studies - PubMed
Resting heart rate shows a linear positive association with the incidence of hypertension and heart failure.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
We identified 13 and 17 cohort studies for hypertension and heart failure, respectively. The risk for each disease, respectively, increased by 11% relative risk: 1.11 (95% confidence interval: 1.07-1.15) and 19% relative risk: 1.19 (95% confidence interval: 1.13-1.25) for each 10 beats-per-minute increment in resting heart rate. The relationship between resting heart rate and hypertension or heart failure was consistent in most subgroup analyses except for gender subgroups, with no significant association observed in the women subgroup. The results provide no evidence of a nonlinear association of elevated resting heart rate with hypertension and heart failure risk.
CONCLUSION:
Resting heart rate shows a linear positive association with the incidence of hypertension and heart failure.