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1886 Med. Rec. 18 Dec. 695/1 Other cases to the number of twelve were added, and included one of weak heart after pneumonia, one of athletic heart possibly (?), one of excessive frequency of cardiac action.

1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 Oct. 14/1 [He] failed to qualify before the Medical Board of the police on the ground that he had an ‘athletic heart’.

1943 Amer. Heart Jrnl. 25 614 ‘Athletic heart’, in the sense of a permanently enlarged, clinically inferior heart, does not exist in the absence of etiologic factors which are scientifically accepted as the cause of actual or potential cardiac disease.

2002 Physician & Sportsmed. 30 41 Differentiating between athletic heart syndrome and HCM [= hypertrophic cardiomyopathy] requires careful examination.