ABSTRACT
On rounds in 2002, we noted that our team had cared for a number of young men who suffered an acute aortic dissection while lifting weights. In 2003, we reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association on a connection between weight lifting and aortic dissection in five young men (1). We found some precedent in the literature supporting such a connection (2). We also found evidence in the literature that high-intensity weight lifting can produce extreme levels of systemic hypertension (3).
