Determinants of lung function changes in athletic swimmers. A review.

Details

Ressource 1Download: 34480504_BIB_16A61DB7490A.pdf (558.03 [Ko])
State: Public
Version: Final published version
License: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Serval ID
serval:BIB_16A61DB7490A
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
Publication sub-type
Review (review): journal as complete as possible of one specific subject, written based on exhaustive analyses from published work.
Collection
Publications
Institution
Title
Determinants of lung function changes in athletic swimmers. A review.
Journal
Acta paediatrica
Author(s)
Rochat I., Côté A., Boulet L.P.
ISSN
1651-2227 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0803-5253
Publication state
Published
Issued date
02/2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
111
Number
2
Pages
259-264
Language
english
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Abstract
To summarise lung function characteristics of athletic swimmers and discuss mechanisms explaining these changes while putting forward the lack of a clear understanding of the precise physiological factors implicated.
Literature search until 07.2021 on Medline and EMBASE using keywords swimming, athletes, respiratory physiology, lung development, lung function tests. Relevant articles in French and English were reviewed.
We found insufficient data to perform a meta-analysis. However, there is evidence that swimmers have better expiratory flows and increased baseline lung volumes than non-athletes or non-swimmers. Although these features can result from changes in lung development following intense training over the years, the contribution of a genetic predisposition and positive selection cannot be totally excluded.
Disentangling the participation of constitutional factors and years of hard training to explain the larger lung volumes of athletic swimmers is in favour of an adaptative response of the lungs to early swim training through modification of the pathway of lung development. There seems to be an optimal window of opportunity before the end of growth for these adaptational changes to occur. Precise mechanisms, and contribution of adaptative change on lung physiology, remain to be further studied.
Keywords
Adaptation, Physiological, Humans, Lung, Respiratory Function Tests, Respiratory Physiological Phenomena, Swimming, athletes, lung function tests, lung growth and development, swimming
Pubmed
Web of science
Open Access
Yes
Create date
24/09/2021 17:33
Last modification date
25/01/2024 8:31
Usage data