A 16-year study in the European Heart Journal found that sudden cardiac death (SCD) was the leading cause of death among female bodybuilding athletes. While overall mortality was half that of men, ...

Sudden cardiac death is responsible for an unusually high proportion of deaths in female bodybuilders worldwide, according to ...

All the women had participated in at least one International Fitness and Bodybuilding Federation event between 2005 and 2020. The researchers then searched for reports of deaths of any of these named ...

A groundbreaking European study published in the European Heart Journal has uncovered a sobering truth: female bodybuilding ...