Cooldown period important after exercising

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Dear Doctors: I meet up with friends a few days a week to go running. One of them always skips the cooldown and hops right into his car to drive to work. A trainer once told me that’s a recipe for sudden cardiac death. Do you know if that’s a myth, or is there something to it?

Dear Reader: The term “sudden cardiac death” is used to describe a medical emergency that, because it compro…