Epidemiological Investigation of Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction in Some Winter Sports Chinese Athletes
10.3969/j.issn.1000-6710.2023.10.001
- VernacularTitle:我国部分冬季项目运动员运动诱发性支气管痉挛流行病学调查
- Author:
Zhi CAO
1
;
Meng LIU
;
Binghong GAO
Author Information
1. 上海体育大学竞技运动学院(上海 200438)
- Keywords:
winter sports athlete;
exercise-induced bronchospasm;
inflammatory factor
- From:
Chinese Journal of Sports Medicine
2023;42(10):761-771
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective To investigate the incidence of exercise-induced bronchospasm(EIB)in athletes of winter sports in China,compare the incidence among athletes of different sports,genders and sports levels,and analyze the physiological differences in pulmonary ventilation function and blood in-flammatory factors between EIB and non-EIB athletes.Methods Ninety athletes(48 males and 42 fe-males)of four Winter Olympic events of cross-country skiing,short track speed skating,snowboard-ing,and freestyle skiing were recruited(including 61 national grade-2,20 national grade-1,and 9 na-tional excellent athletes).Venous blood was collected early in the morning on the test day for inflam-matory factor analysis.Moreover,the bronchial exercise provocation test was performed on the test day and pulmonary ventilation function parameters were obtained immediately before the test and at 1st,3rd,5th,7th,10th and 15th minute after the test.Results Thirty-three athletes were detected EIB out of 90,with a mean prevalence of 36.67%.In terms of incidence,athletes of cross-country skiing ranked the first(43.18%),followed by those of short track speed skating(38.46%),snowboarding(31.25%)and freestyle skiing(23.53%).Moreover,the incidence of female and male athletes was 42.86%and 31.25%,respectively.Meanwhile,the prevalence of national excellent sportsmen was 55.56%,followed by that of the national grade-1(40%)and grade-2(32.8%).According to the pulmo-nary ventilation indexes,the 1 s expiratory force volume(FEV1)and expiratory force volume(FVC)de-creased significantly(P<0.001)at the 1st and 3rd minutes after the provocation test among EIB ath-letes,but did not change significantly among the non-EIB athletes.Moreover,the FEV1/FVC ratio showed a downward trend among EIB athletes,but an upward trend among the non-EIB ones.As to the blood parameters,the level of the white blood cell count(109/L),interleukin-6 and CC16 of EIB athletes were significantly higher(P=0.02 and P=0.003),while that of immunoglobulin E(IgE)was low-er than the latter(P=0.07).Conclusion EIB troubles athletes of winter sports in China,characterized by a higher incidence among physical sportsmen than skill ones,among women than men,and high-level athletes than common ones.Moreover,inflammation of EIB athletes is more severe than the non-EIB ones,and partly due to airway injury.
