Back to Search
Start Over
Left Ventricular Mass and Oxygen Uptake in Top Handball Athletes
- Source :
- International Journal of Sports Medicine. 34:e1-e1
- Publication Year :
- 2012
- Publisher :
- Georg Thieme Verlag KG, 2012.
-
Abstract
- The key challenge in athlete's screening is the distinction between abnormal and normal which is hindered by the fact that the adaptation to sports activity in endurance athletes is different to that in power athletes. Especially cardiomyopathies provoke changes in ECG and echocardiography (echo) at an early stage when clinical symptoms are absent. ECG and echo data and their relationship to fitness peculiar to top handball players have never been described. We studied 291 male first league handball players (32 Olympians/47 national players) (25.3±4.4 years). Check up consisted of ECG, spiroergometry and echocardiography. None had T-wave inversions, 3.1% showed early repolarisation abnormalities in the precordial leads. Sokolow-Lyon voltage criterion for left ventricular hypertrophy was positive in 19.3%. Spiroergometry showed a maximum oxygen uptake (peakVO₂) of 50.3±7.7 ml/min/kg body weight. LVmass was increased in comparison to normal values. There was a correlation between peakVO₂ and LVindex (p
- Subjects :
- Spirometry
Adult
Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Adolescent
Physical fitness
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Left ventricular hypertrophy
Muscle hypertrophy
Electrocardiography
Young Adult
Oxygen Consumption
Reference Values
Internal medicine
Medicine
Humans
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Retrospective Studies
Ultrasonography
medicine.diagnostic_test
biology
business.industry
Athletes
VO2 max
Blood Pressure Determination
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Oxygen uptake
Physical Fitness
Cardiology
Physical therapy
Exercise Test
Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular
business
Cardiomyopathies
human activities
Sports
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14393964 and 01724622
- Volume :
- 34
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- International Journal of Sports Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....397c8b292eb53101d7d8230477259e23