Slow Heart Beat also called Bradycardia implies to the situation when heart beats less than 60 even sometimes 50 per minutes. Athletes usually tend to have slow resting heart beat which is not considered a disease unless associated symptoms are not appeared.

Basically slow heart beat is linked with cardiac arrhythmia and can have many causes. Indeed, causes can be classified into two types. The first type is cardiac which includes acute or chronic chemic heart disease, vascular heart disease, valvular heart disease, or degenerative primary electrical disease. These problems disturb the automacity of the heart and ultimately, heart beats slow than the normal condition. The second type is non cardiac causes may involve drugs use or abuse, metabolic, or endocrine problems. Generally, disorder of the sinus node (SV) and atrioventricular node (AV node), which plays major roles for heart to beat, becomes the reason of heart to beat slower than the normal condition.

This problem is notably more common in old aged people. The general symptoms of this problem can be fainting, sweating and light headache.

Drugs treatment for bradycardia is normally not suggested to the symptomatic patients. The underlying electrolyte or acid-base disorders or hypoxia should be treated first. Moreover, healthy life style is a significant step to avoid heart problem, in general including drinking plenty of water, eating healthy diet, eliminating unnecessary stress, exercising regularly, and swimming, maintaining weight and regular check up from doctor is necessary.