[Heart and sports in the daily life of a heart patient].

Everyone should practice regular physical activity through life, with the aim of slowing down arterial damage due to aging. In cardiac patients, especially with coronary insufficiency, exercise is also a suitable method of rehabilitation and can thus be considered a complementary treatment when the situation has been restored by medication. Sport should be practised discriminately in quantity and quality to prevent its major complication, sudden death during effort. The arrhythmias that may be precursors of sudden death should be looked for in the stress test in particular. Pathologies involving a risk of sudden death should likewise be detected. Care should be taken to avoid anything in these patients that could predispose to onset of arrhythmia, which is very often the trigger for ventricular fibrillation.