For long, you must have been reading the advice on roller coasters, while visiting amusement parks that people with heart conditions and high blood pressure should not ride. And quite possible that you might have ignored this warning.
However, now you won’t dare doing so because a new study in Germany reveals that faster rides on roller coasters may carry heart risks for its riders.
The latest conclusion sprang out after a team of researchers evaluated heart functioning of around 55 healthy men and women before, during and after riding a roller coaster at the Holiday Park in Hassloch, Germany. During this analysis, mean heart rate went up from 89 beats per minute before the ride to 155 beats a minute during the ride and then down to 109 beats per minute at the end of the ride.
According to experts, during roller coaster riding, participants reported mild hypertension, which experts believe is not harmful for healthy people. However, this mild hypertension is sufficient to prove fatal for people with heart diseases. As Dr. Dariusch Haghi, a co-author of the study and a cardiologist at University Hospital of Mannheim in Germany remarks:
The changes could have been fatal if the participants had underlying cardiac conditions or if the irregularities had lasted longer.
As we know that riding roller coaster is a mode of adventurous entertainment, therefore, people with nervous disorders, hypertension and heart problems should stay away from such adventurous tasks. Moreover, it is pertinent to note here that this is not the first study to expose negative effects of roller coaster over health, as arsenal is chockfull of evidences, exposing side effects of roller coaster over health. Have a glance over such evidences:
• Roller coaster rides may be the cause of unexplained head, neck and back injuries
• Roller-coasters ‘can stop hearts’
So, now you have to decide whether you want to taste adventure at the cost of your health or prefer your safety.
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