The prevalence of exercise-associated hyponatremia in 24-hour ultra-mountain bikers, 24-hour ultra-runners and multi-stage ultra-mountain bikers in the Czech Republic

Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Chlíbková, Daniela ^a   Knechtle, Beat ^b,e   Rosemann, Thomas ^b   Žákovská, Alena ^c   Tomášková, Ivana ^d  

^a BRNO UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^d CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^e Gesundheitszentrum St Gallen ^*  (Switzerland)

Author keywords

24 hour race; Body mass; Fluid intake; Multi stage race; Sodium

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893674243     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15502783     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1550-2783-11-3     Document Type: Article

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