In a message dated 1/21/00 10:18:03 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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<< > .3...an enlarged heart is not a sign of health but a sign of disease.

 Is that categorically true?  I'll have to do some digging, but
 I'm pretty sure that enlargement is not unusual in people who do
 a lot of aerobics, and not pathological either.  When it occurs
 in untrained people, that's something else again.
  >>
I was referring to untrained people, but I do not think the degree of
enlargement in trained is comparably as large---I will check on that and the
parameters of athlet's slow and accepable rate with good cardiac output.