| Exercising in cold weather can cause chest pain in | | | | your heart beat faster. Cold hands will not cause |
| some people who have no problems when they | | | | chest pain, but a cold face can. If you have no |
| exercise in warm weather. When cold wind blows | | | | history arteriosclerosis and have chest pain when |
| on your face, your heart rate slows down. This | | | | you exercise in cold weather, check with your |
| decreases the blood flow to the heart and can | | | | doctor to rule out possible heart problems. If you |
| cause pain in people with blocked coronary | | | | have heart trouble, it is always a good idea to |
| arteries.The blood supply to your heart muscle | | | | cover your face when you go out on cold days. |
| comes from arteries on its outside surface. The | | | | You can wear a scarf that you can wrap over |
| blood that is pumped inside your heart's chambers | | | | your mouth, a knitted ski mask, or a hat with a |
| brings almost no oxygen to your heart muscle. If | | | | visor that you can lower when the wind blows. |
| you have arteriosclerosis, the fatty plaques in | | | | Check with your doctor.Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been |
| your heart's arteries restrict the flow of blood to | | | | a radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing |
| your heart. Your heart has to pump rapidly to | | | | physician for more than 40 years; he is board |
| meet its needs for oxygen. A cold wind slows | | | | certified in four specialties, including sports |
| your heart, reducing the flow of blood. If the | | | | medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness |
| heart muscle is unable to get all the oxygen it | | | | and health reports at weekly newsletter on |
| needs, it starts to hurt.While freezing your face | | | | fitness, health, and nutrition. |
| slows your heart, freezing your fingers makes | | | | |