Is there relationship between heart size and occupation?

Answer 1

only if you compare those that "work" in the NBA versus those that are midgets in the circus.

Answer 2

Competitive athletes in endurance sports, such as cycling, distance running, or swimming often get enlarged hearts.

There is a pathological condition called athlete's heart or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. It causes half of the sudden death cases involving athletes under age 35.

Emphysema is a lung disease that can be caused by occupational hazards, such as certain chemical fumes, dust particles, smoke, gasses, vapors, and mists. One of its symptoms is a small heart.

Answer 3

Are you talking literal size or figurative? For example, when someone says that a generous person "has a big heart," it doesn't mean the heart is enlarged.

If you're talking figurative, then a "big hearted" person is usually someone in a caring field - medicine, education, etc.

Answer 4

I assume that people with bigger hearts would be able to be more active and so maybe professional athletes have larger hearts. But I don't have any statistics to back that up. It's a very interesting question though.

Answer 5

http://www.edb.utexas.edu/coyle/armstrong.php

basically says that good atheletes like Lance Armstrong...can have a heart that can pump harder and faster than that of normal men. the size is slightly larger to accomadate for the larger muscles. So yeah...somebody who needs most blood pumping through their system like a professional biker has a larger heart than that of a professional couch potato.

-tuna

Answer 6

Not directly. An enlarged heart is usually caused by hypertension and inadequate exercise.