{"id":11697,"date":"2025-08-25T06:00:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T05:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/?p=11697"},"modified":"2025-08-24T20:57:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:57:02","slug":"understanding-the-female-athletes-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/2025\/08\/25\/understanding-the-female-athletes-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding the female athletes\u2019 heart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Key words: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">exercise, sex differences, heart<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Why is this study important?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This blog is a summary of a recently published BJSM <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2025\/04\/29\/bjsports-2024-109503\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (1).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The heart of the athlete often demonstrates physical changes as a result of regular endurance training such as bigger chamber or \u2018ventricular\u2019 size[2, 3] . However, this phenomenon has predominantly been described in male populations, with female athletes consistently under- represented and assessed only in small cohorts[4-6]. In healthy individuals and athletes, heart chamber size is a known positive predictor of fitness with larger heart size allowing a greater ability for the body to meet the demands of exercise[7]. Sex differences in how the heart adapts to exercise in elite endurance athletes remains unclear. Additionally, previous studies attempting to answer this question have focussed on echocardiographic imaging, whereas cardiac MRI can give more accurate chamber analyses and allows for the assessment of scar in heart muscle.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>How did the study go about this?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This international <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/content\/early\/2025\/04\/29\/bjsports-2024-109503.citation-tools\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">study<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> included over 300 highly trained endurance athletes who had undergone cardiac MRI and gold-standard assessment of cardiorespiratory fitness (using cardiopulmonary exercise testing; VO<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">peak) (1). We analysed the sex-specific relationships between heart chamber size, function and fitness, as well as assessed for possible differences in scar between male and female athletes.\u00a0<\/span><b>What did the study find?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This study is one of the largest and most comprehensive studies describing the female \u2018athlete\u2019s heart\u2019 with cardiac MRI and VO<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">peak assessment.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our study derived normative values for heart size in male and female athletes and revealed many key findings:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(1) female athletes have smaller\u00a0 heart chamber size than male athletes but this differs if adjusted for fat differences<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(2) the relationship between heart size and fitness is similar for both sexes\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(3) there is no sex difference in heart fibrosis between male and female athletes<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>What are the key take-home points?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Our study highlights the importance of improving gender equity in<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">sports cardiology research to improve our understanding of how sex impacts heart adaptation to exercise. This is important to help differentiate normal from abnormal, as well as helping understand how heart changes may impact health outcomes. In our study, measures of heart structure for female athletes consistently exceeded the \u2018normal\u2019 values of the general population, therefore heart size needs to be assessed in the context of fitness.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11698\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/08\/Understanding-the-female-athletes-heart-213x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/08\/Understanding-the-female-athletes-heart-213x300.png 213w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/08\/Understanding-the-female-athletes-heart-768x1083.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/08\/Understanding-the-female-athletes-heart-1090x1536.png 1090w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/08\/Understanding-the-female-athletes-heart-640x902.png 640w, https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bjsm\/files\/2025\/08\/Understanding-the-female-athletes-heart.png 1240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 433px) 100vw, 433px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Blog author:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Stephanie Rowe<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>References<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rowe S, Janssens K, Mitchell A<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, et al<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Female endurance athletes: smaller hearts but similar relationship between ventricular size, fitness and fibrosis as male athletes<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">British Journal of Sports Medicine <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Published Online First: 29 April 2025. doi: 10.1136\/bjsports-2024-109503<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Baggish AL, Wang F, Weiner RB, Elinoff JM, Tournoux F, Boland A, et al. Training-specific changes in cardiac structure and function: a prospective and longitudinal assessment of competitive athletes. J Appl Physiol (1985). 2008;104(4):1121-8.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Steding K, Engblom H, Buhre T, Carlsson M, Mosen H, Wohlfart B, et al. Relation between cardiac dimensions and peak oxygen uptake. J Cardiovasc Magn Reson. 2010;12(1):8.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Mitchell A, Janssens K, Howden EJ, La Gerche A, Orchard JJ. Ms-represented: strategies to increase female representation in sports cardiology research. Br J Sports Med. 2024;58(3):122-4.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Bryde R, Applewhite AI, Abu Dabrh AM, Taylor BJ, Heckman MG, Filmalter SE, et al. Cardiac structure and function in elite female athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Physiol Rep. 2021;9(23):e15141.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">La Gerche A, Wasfy MM, Brosnan MJ, Claessen G, Fatkin D, Heidbuchel H, et al. The Athlete&#8217;s Heart-Challenges and Controversies: JACC Focus Seminar 4\/4. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2022;80(14):1346-62.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rowe S, L&#8217;Hoyes W, Milani M, Spencer L, Foulkes S, Paratz E, et al. Left Ventricular Volume as a Predictor of Exercise Capacity and Functional Independence in Individuals with Normal Ejection Fraction. Eur J Prev Cardiol. 2024.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key words: exercise, sex differences, heart Why is this study important? This blog is a summary of a recently published BJSM study (1). 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