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

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Type
Article: article d'un périodique ou d'un magazine.
Sous-type
Synthèse (review): revue aussi complète que possible des connaissances sur un sujet, rédigée à partir de l'analyse exhaustive des travaux publiés.
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Titre
Determinants of lung function changes in athletic swimmers. A review.
Périodique
Acta paediatrica
Auteur⸱e⸱s
Rochat I., Côté A., Boulet L.P.
ISSN
1651-2227 (Electronic)
ISSN-L
0803-5253
Statut éditorial
Publié
Date de publication
02/2022
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
111
Numéro
2
Pages
259-264
Langue
anglais
Notes
Publication types: Journal Article ; Review
Publication Status: ppublish
Résumé
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.
Mots-clé
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
Oui
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24/09/2021 17:33
Dernière modification de la notice
25/01/2024 8:31
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