No exercise-associated hyponatremia found in an observational field study of male ultra-marathoners participating in a 24-hour ultra-run

Physician and Sportsmedicine

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 94-100

  Knechtle, Beat ^a,b   Knechtle, Patrizia ^a   Rosemann, Thomas ^b  

^a Gesundheitszentrum ^*  (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Electrolytes; Exercised associated hyponatremia; Fluid intake; Marathon runners; Plasma; Ultra endurance

Indexed keywords

ELECTROLYTE; SODIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENDURANCE SPORT; EUROPE; EXERCISE ASSOCIATED HYPONATREMIA; FEMALE; FIELD STUDY; FLUID INTAKE; HEMATOCRIT; HUMAN; HYPONATREMIA; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARATHON RUNNER; PLASMA VOLUME; PREVALENCE; RELATIVE DENSITY; RUNNING; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; SWITZERLAND; ULTRA ENDURANCE; VELOCITY; WESTERN HEMISPHERE;

BODY COMPOSITION; HUMANS; HYPONATREMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; PREVALENCE; RUNNING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWITZERLAND; TIME FACTORS; WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE;

EID: 78650280034     PISSN: 00913847     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3810/psm.2010.12.1831     Document Type: Article

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