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Maintaining good hydration over time may slow down age-related changes within the heart that lead to heart failure, according toJoin Runner’s World+ today for exclusive access to the latest health and running news!
Researched looked at nearly 16,000 middle-aged adults who were part of the long-running Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study, and they found those who had good hydration habits were less likely to develop heart failure over a 25-year time period. That’s because when you drink less fluid—particularly water—your concentration of serum sodium increases. Basically, you have too much sodium in your blood, and the longer that continues, the higher your risk of heart problems becomes.
Over time, your body shifts toward conserving water as a way to counteract that abundance, and that can activate processes related to poor heart function, researchers noted. For example, in the study, those with heart failure tended to develop a condition called left ventricular hypertrophy, which affects the heart’s ability to pump blood, and involves a thickening of tissue within the heart muscle.
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