Performance trends and cardiac biomarkers in a 30-km cross-country race, 1993-2007

Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 894-899

  Aagaard, Philip ^a   Sahlén, Anders ^a   Braunschweig, Frieder ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

aging; exercise; master athletes; NT probnp; sudden cardiac death; troponin

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; TROPONIN T;

ADULT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BLOOD; BLOOD ANALYSIS; ENDURANCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; RUNNING; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWEDEN; TIME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBINS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PHYSICAL ENDURANCE; RUNNING; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWEDEN; TIME FACTORS; TROPONIN T;

EID: 84859904076     PISSN: 01959131     EISSN: 15300315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/MSS.0b013e31823cd051     Document Type: Review

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