Resting Heart Rate

Stable Resting Heart Rate Key to CV Health

By Chris Kaiser, Cardiology Editor, MedPage Today Published: December 21, 2011 Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, RN, BC-ADM, CDE, Nurse Planner Action Points   An increase in resting heart rate over a 10-year span was associated with an increased risk of death from heart disease. Point out that there was no protective effect for those whose second measurement declined from greater than 85 beats/min to less than 70 beats/minute. An increase in resting heart rate over a 10-year span was associated with an increased risk of death from heart disease, a Norwegian population study found. Compared with adults whose first and second heart rate measurements were less than 70 beats per minute, those whose rate increased to more than 85 beats/min when measured a second time a decade later doubled their risk of death from ischemic heart disease (HR 1.995% CI 1.0 to 3.6), reported Ulrik Wisløff, PhD, from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway, and colleagues. However, there was no protective effect for those whose second measurement declined from greater than 85 beats/min to less than 70 beats/min, according to the study published in the Dec. 21 issue of the Journal of the American Medical /.../