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Spatiotemporal characteristics of the heart electrical field in the period of ventricular depolarization in athletes training endurance and strength

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As a result of hemodynamic and structural changes occurring in the heart of athletes under the influence of systematic physical loads, the myocardial electrical activity changes, which is reflected on the electric field formed on the body surface. The electrical activity of the heart during ventricular depolarization at rest was studied in the highly skilled athletes training to develop physical characteristics (endurance and strength) by the method of electrocardiotopography. The studied athletes had similar patterns of movement of zones of positive and negative cardiac electrical potentials and location of extrema as well as the total depolarization duration but showed significant distinctions in (1) the amplitude of the maximum negative extremum; (2) the time of the beginning and end of the first inversion; (3) the duration of the second inversion, the initial stage, and the stability period between inversions; and (4) the relative position of positive and negative cardiopotential zones.

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    S. V. Strelnikova, N. I. Panteleeva & I. M. Roshchevskaya

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Strelnikova, N.I. Panteleeva, I.M. Roshchevskaya, 2014, published in Fiziologiya Cheloveka, 2014, Vol. 40, No. 5, pp. 87–92.

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Strelnikova, S.V., Panteleeva, N.I. & Roshchevskaya, I.M. Spatiotemporal characteristics of the heart electrical field in the period of ventricular depolarization in athletes training endurance and strength. Hum Physiol 40, 548–553 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0362119714040148

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