Comparison of the Hematological Profile of Elite Road Cyclists during the 2010 and 2012 GiroBio Ten-Day Stage Races and Relationships with Final Ranking

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Lombardi, Giovanni ^a   Lanteri, Patrizia ^a   Fiorella, Pier Luigi ^b   Simonetto, Luigi ^b   Impellizzeri, Franco M ^b   Bonifazi, Marco ^c   Banfi, Giuseppe ^a,d   Locatelli, Massimo ^e  

^a IRCCS ISTITUTO ORTOPEDICO GALEAZZI   (Italy)

^b Federazione Ciclistica Italiana   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^e SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYCLING; DOPING; ENDURANCE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; FINAL RANKING; HEMATOCRIT; HEMATOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR HEMOGLOBIN; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; MEAN HEMOGLOBIN CONTENT; RETICULOCYTE ABSOLUTE COUNT; RETICULOCYTE COUNT; RETICULOCYTE RELATIVE COUNT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPORTS AND SPORT RELATED PHENOMENA; STAGE RACING; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREND STUDY; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BLOOD EXAMINATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ATHLETES; BICYCLING; BLOOD CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; HEMATOLOGIC TESTS; HUMANS; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84876996499     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063092     Document Type: Article

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