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SUNDAY NOVEMBER 25 2001
Exercise addicts hit by Stone syndrome
<B>JOHN HARLOW</B> LOS ANGELES
IF there is one honour that even the most desperate Hollywood
attention-seeker can live without, it is having a medical syndrome
named after her.
This is the fate that has befallen Sharon Stone, the 43- year-old
actress best known as the star of the erotic thriller Basic Instinct,
who suffered a mild stroke two months ago after training for a
charity run.
Doctors believe she may have been the victim of a phenomenon
affecting a growing number of fortysomethings whose health is
jeopardised by intense workouts that trigger strokes and heart
problems. Cases have trebled in 20 years, according to one study.
The North California Medical Association wants to call it Stone
syndrome. The proposal has gone to the American Medical Association
for approval, prompting a debate about the dangers facing so-called
YMAs (young middle-aged) if they try to recreate their youthfulness
by turning too abruptly to vigorous exercise.
Stone was taken to hospital from her San Francisco home on September 29 after
complaining of a headache, which turned out to have been caused by a ruptured blood
vessel near the base of her skull. She was saved by a revol
utionary new operation in which platinum tubes were inserted into her neck to create a
bypass for blood around the damaged area.
Stone has described the cause of her brain haemorrhage as “a case of the mysteries”,
but physicians are linking it with exercise she did the previous day for a three-mile
charity race.
Nobody knows how widespread Stone syndrome may be among the 35m Americans in their
forties, but one doctor claimed last week that thousands could be dying each year
among a baby boomer generation keen “to live for ever”.
Exercise has long been associated with some element of risk. Jim Fixx, the pioneer of
jogging, dropped dead on a run at the age of 52. However, Fixx had a heart condition
that could have killed him regardless of whether h
e ever ran or not.
Stone syndrome applies to baby boomers who plunge into a rigorous exercise regime to
ward off ageing. It may have contributed to the death of Douglas Adams, 49, author of
the The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, who suff
ered a heart attack on an exercise bike in his Malibu home last May while “sweating
through” the plot of his latest book.
Research at Ohio State University showed a 200% increase in serious exercise-related
incidents among men and women in their forties over the past two decades.
The Ohio researchers said many YMA men were influenced by the film American Beauty, in
which a depressed advertising salesman played by Kevin Spacey quits his job to
concentrate on body-building.
There is no evidence that Stone went far beyond her normal routines before becoming
ill, but these are intensive even by Californian standards.
Stone, who was nominated for an Oscar for her role as a gangster’s moll in Casino,
spends up to three hours a day with her personal trainer. She recently added Pilates,
a 70-year-old German stretching system devised for d
ancers, and Tae Bo, a form of aerobic martial arts, to her yoga
routines.
“People in their mid-forties have to work harder to stabilise their
body,” said Dr John DiFiori, an assistant professor of sports
medicine at the University of California Los Angeles. “They have to
find an hour a day, which is very difficult. And they must see a
doctor first — people injure themselves by starting off without any
medical guidance at all.”
A preoccupation with the gym can be costly, according to Linda
Sapadin, a New York psychologist. “People might be a lot happier if
they thought about the pleasures of being over 40, and stop holding
in their stomachs. The good news is, by the time most people reach 50
or so, they have stopped worrying about such things.”
Copyright 2001 Times Newspapers Ltd.
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