ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS OF THE SPORT HORSE
Keywords:
sport horse, ECG parameters, adaptative capacityAbstract
A group of 24 sport horses was surveyed for the characteristic elements of the
electrocardiograms done before and after a period of 5 months of physical exercises
specific to the competition trainings. The sportive performance was positively correlated
with the morphology of the ECG waves: the biphasic aspect of wave P, the sS-type
aspect of the QRS complex, the monophasic aspect of the T wave. After the training, the
average amplitude of P2 biphasic wave increased by 14.7%, the average duration of the
QRS complex increased by 16%, of the S wave increased by 21.8% and of the
monophasic T wave increased by 22.2%.
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