Hemorheological correlates of fitness and unfitness in athletes: Moving beyond the apparent "paradox of hematocrit"?

Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 161-173

  Gaudard, A ^a   Varlet Marie, E ^a   Bressolle, F ^a   Mercier, J ^b   Brun, J F ^b  

^a UNIV MONTPELLIER   (France)

^b LAPEYRONIE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Doping; Exercise; Fitness; Overtraining; Physical working capacity; Rheology; Unfitness; Viscosity parameters

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AEROBIC CAPACITY; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD RHEOLOGY; BLOOD VISCOSITY; DOPING; EXERCISE TEST; FITNESS; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ADULT; BLOOD VISCOSITY; BODY COMPOSITION; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE; ERYTHROCYTE AGGREGATION; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; FERRITINS; FIBRINOGEN; HAND STRENGTH; HEMATOCRIT; HEMORHEOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPORTS;

EID: 0038459354     PISSN: 13860291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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