16-Year Study Links Female Bodybuilding to Elevated Sudden Cardiac Death Risk

32 deaths documented among 9,447 female bodybuilders over 16 years, with mean age of death at 43 years; 10 deaths attributed to sudden cardiac events.

Over sixteen years, researchers following nearly ten thousand female competitive bodybuilders found that sudden cardiac death claimed more lives than any other cause — striking women at a mean age of 43, most often near the time of competition. Published in the European Heart Journal, the study reveals that while female bodybuilders die less frequently overall than their male counterparts, the cardiac gap between the sexes narrows in troubling ways when the cause is the heart itself. The findings place a quiet but urgent question before the sporting and medical world: what is the female heart

16-Year Study Links Female Bodybuilding to Elevated Sudden Cardiac Death Risk

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