Martha Gulati, MD, is the director of Women’s Cardiovascular Health and Preventive Cardiology, an associate professor of cardiovascular medicine and the Sarah Ross Soter Chair in Women’s Cardiovascular Health, all at The Ohio State University in Columbus. She also is a coauthor of the 2007 guidelines for heart disease prevention in women published by the American Heart Association. Her research on women and the heart’s response to exercise has been published in various medical journals, including The New England Journal of Medicine and Circulation.
Q: I exercise regularly and consider myself fit, but my resting heart rate is on the high end—about 80 beats…
