PVC's and Exercise

Discovered another fascinating article on exercise & PVC's at a new website:

The new website - The Heart.org

And the article:  Recovery PVC's on Exercise Test are Prognostic

There are many interesting parts to this article on PVC's.  First, PVC's after exercise is BAD!

Dewey told heartwire: "Recovery premature ventricular complexes [PVCs] seem to be more significant than PVCs that occur during exercise testing. They seem to have some prognostic significance, so that there appears to be additional risk stratification provided by arrhythmias during recovery," he noted. In contrast, PVCs occurring solely during exercise have limited prognostic significance, he said.


The good news is:

PVCs during exercise were associated with increased mortality rates only if accompanied by PVCs after exercise. But "similar to previous findings in clinical cohorts . . . recovery PVCs were robustly associated with adverse prognosis regardless of the presence of PVCs during exercise.

This is seems to help my concern!  I do monitor my exercise with my heart rate monitor.  I do not have PVC's in the recovery phase of my workouts!