The Role Of Airway Inflammation And Bronchial Hyperresponsiveness In Athlete'S Asthma
MEDICINE AND SCIENCE IN SPORTS AND EXERCISE(2018)
摘要
Purpose Asthma is frequently reported in endurance athletes. The aim of the present study was to assess the long-term airway inflammatory response to endurance exercise in high-level athletes with and without asthma.Methods In a cross-sectional design, 20 asthmatic athletes (10 swimmers and 10 cross-country skiers), 19 athletes without asthma (10 swimmers and 9 cross-country skiers), and 24 healthy nonathletes completed methacholine bronchial challenge, lung function tests, and sputum induction on two separate days. All athletes competed on a national or international level and exercised 10 hwk(-1). The nonathletes exercised 5 hwk(-1) and reported no previous lung disease. Bronchial hyperresponsiveness (BHR) was defined as a methacholine provocation dose causing 20% decrease in the forced expiratory volume in 1 s of 8 mol.Results BHR was present in 13 asthmatic athletes (62%), 11 healthy athletes (58%), and 8 healthy nonathletes (32%), and the prevalence differed among groups (P = 0.005). Sputum inflammatory and epithelial cell counts did not differ between groups and were within the normal range. Median (25th to 75th percentiles) sputum interleukin-8 was elevated in both asthmatic (378.4 [167.0-1123.4]) and healthy (340.2 [175.5-892.4]) athletes as compared with healthy nonathletes (216.6 [129.5-314.0], P = 0.02). No correlations were found between provocation dose causing 20% decrease and sputum cell counts.Conclusion Independent of asthma diagnosis, a high occurrence of BHR and an increased sputum interleukin-8 were found in athletes as compared with nonathletes. Airway inflammation or epithelial damage was not related to BHR.
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CROSS-COUNTRY SKIERS, EPITHELIAL DAMAGE, EXERCISE, INDUCED SPUTUM, METHACHOLINE, SWIMMERS
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