1. How to detect young athletes at risk of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction?
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Janne Goossens, Sven Seys, Sophie Verelst, Tatjana Decaesteker, Lieven Dupont, Anne-Charlotte Jonckheere, and Dominique Bullens
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Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,Bronchoconstriction ,Provocation test ,Population ,Surveys and Questionnaires ,Humans ,Medicine ,Elite athletes ,education ,Exercise ,Asthma ,education.field_of_study ,biology ,business.industry ,Athletes ,Guideline ,medicine.disease ,biology.organism_classification ,Test (assessment) ,Asthma, Exercise-Induced ,Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health ,Physical therapy ,medicine.symptom ,business ,human activities - Abstract
Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) is a prevalent condition in elite athletes caused by transient airway narrowing during or after exercise. Young athletes nowadays start early to perform high level exercise, highlighting the need to screen for EIB in a younger population. The purpose of this review is to evaluate current evidence of pre-tests with high probability to predict a positive provocation test in young and adolescent athletes, aged 12–24 years and thus indicate whether a young athlete is at risk of having EIB. Up to now, there is no validated screening test available to increase the pre-test probability of a provocation test of EIB in young and adolescent athletes. We would recommend that a clinical guideline committee might consider the development of a flow chart to screen for EIB in adolescent athletes. It could be composed of a symptom-based questionnaire focusing on wheezing during exercise, atopic state, reversibility test (to exclude EIB with asthma) and completed with markers in blood/serum. However, more research is necessary.
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- 2022
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