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When given a medicine that opens up heart arteries, endurance athletes show a much bigger increase in artery space relative to heart muscle size than non-athletes, which might mean their arteries respond better to the drug.
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Athletes who took a nitroglycerin tablet under their tongue had much more open coronary arteries than athletes who didn’t, but sedentary people didn’t show this difference — suggesting their training made their blood vessels respond better to the drug.
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