In December, Jeff Green and the Boston Celtics got some bad luck when it was revealed that he needed surgery to repair an aortic aneurysm, a serious heart-related issue that would cause him to miss ...

A new finding shows how intense exercise may affect an athlete's body. Research has shown football players to have larger hearts and thicker heart muscles due to intense exercise. Now doctors have a ...

Jacksonville Jaguars defensive lineman Rodney Gunter is stepping away from football because of an enlarged aorta. Gunter, who had been placed on the team’s non-football injury list at the start of ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — Players in the National Football League are known to be big tough guys but new research from the Cleveland Clinic shows former players had significantly larger aortas, nearly 12 ...

(AP) — Jacksonville Jaguars defensive lineman Rodney Gunter is stepping away from football because of an enlarged aorta. Gunter, who had been placed on the team’s non-football injury list at the start ...

Former NFL players were more likely to have enlarged aortas, but further study is needed to determine whether that puts them at greater risk for life-threatening aneurysms, researchers found. The ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A group of retired National Football League players had significantly larger ascending aortic dimensions ...

BOSTON - It's long been known that endurance athletes have larger hearts on average than the rest of the population and that cardiac enlargement is a healthy adaptation to exercise. But what wasn't ...