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Right Ventricular Function Improves After Bench Press: A Speckle Tracking Echocardiography Study.

María Belén Martínez-Lechuga¹, Javier Hidalgo-Martín², Manuel Ruiz-Bailén^2,3

¹Jaén University Hospital, 23007 Jaén, Spain.

Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)

|August 28, 2025

Summary

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Weightlifters exhibit altered right ventricular function post-exercise, with speckle tracking parameters correlating with nutritional status, including protein, vitamin E, zinc, and B vitamins.

Keywords:

3D echocardiography athlete bench press right ventricle speckle tracking

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Area of Science:

Cardiology
Sports Medicine
Nutritional Science

Background:

The impact of weightlifting on right ventricular myocardial mechanics is not fully understood.
Nutritional factors may influence cardiac function in athletes.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the association between nutritional status and right ventricular myocardial deformation in weightlifters.
To analyze changes in right ventricle speckle tracking echocardiography parameters before and after bench press exercises.

Main Methods:

Interventional study involving 211 male weightlifters and 60 non-athlete controls.
Echocardiography with speckle tracking was performed pre- and post-exercise.
Nutritional parameters (protein, vitamins E, B, zinc) were assessed.

Main Results:

Weightlifters showed significantly altered right ventricular longitudinal strain, strain rate, and isovolumic acceleration post-exercise (p < 0.001).
Right intraventricular synchrony increased, and longitudinal strain delay decreased after exercise (p < 0.001).
Right ventricular longitudinal strain correlated with protein, vitamin E, and zinc levels; radial velocities correlated with B vitamins.

Conclusions:

Weightlifters demonstrate distinct right ventricular responses to exercise compared to controls.
Speckle tracking echocardiography reveals exercise-induced changes in right ventricular function.
Right ventricular myocardial deformation in weightlifters may be associated with specific nutritional factors.