Determinants of fast marathon performance: Low basal sympathetic drive, enhanced postcompetition vasodilatation and preserved cardiac performance after competition

British Journal of Sports Medicine

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 582-588

  Gratze, G ^a   Mayer, H ^a   Luft, F C ^b   Skrabal, Falko ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; COMPETITION; HEART PERFORMANCE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEART STROKE VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMPEDANCE CARDIOGRAPHY; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; NORMAL HUMAN; OSCILLOMETRY; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; SYMPATHETIC TONE; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION; VASOMOTOR REFLEX;

ADULT; ATHLETIC PERFORMANCE; BAROREFLEX; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARDIOGRAPHY, IMPEDANCE; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RUNNING; STROKE VOLUME; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 56549110441     PISSN: 03063674     EISSN: 14730480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bjsm.2007.044271     Document Type: Article

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