Source: Annual Congress 2002 - Asthma - Therapy and management -3
Disease area: Airway diseases

Abstract

Our purpose was to evaluate the prevalence of exercise induced-asthma(EIA)and to define related symptoms and risk factors among the symptomatic students of sports college in Erzurum, a city with an about 200 meters altitude.
Firstly, a questionnaire was sent to 380 students. It was formed with questions, which had already been used in other studies and was modified for this study, including demographic features and respiratory symptoms (cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, chest tightness and chest pain) in relation to exercise and cold climate. Later, symptomatic cases were invited to perform pulmonary function test (PFT) before and after a six-minute exercise test done at room temperature. Having 15% decrease in post-exercise FEV1 value according to baseline value was accepted as EIA.
The questionnaire was replied by 277 students (205 males and 72 females). The age range was 13-33 years. Of these subjects, 43 were symptomatic during performing exercise, 31.8% were smokers, 14.4% had an allergy history mostly to egg and dust. Out of symptomatic cases, 60 accepted our invite. Their average baseline FEV1 value was 105.27±]15.47. Of symptomatic cases 70.2% were males(41% of male group) and 29.8 were females (50% of female group). The most encountered symptoms were coughing (18.1%) and chest tightness (18.1%). No significant correlation was found between PFT with other parameters. After performing a six-minute exercise test only 5 cases (3 females, 2 males) had decreased FEV1 more than 15%, and the symptoms were aggrevated by cold weather in all 5 cases.
In conclusion we could not claim that only respiratory symptoms could be related EIA. Symptomatic cases must undergo further tests for diagnosis of EIA. Cold climate has an important effect on sportsmen from the point of respiratory symptoms.

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H. Kaynar, M. Akgun, L. Saglam, A. Mirici, M. Gorguner (Erzurum, Turkey). The prevalence of exercise-induced asthma among symptomatic sportsmen. Eur Respir J 2002; 20: Suppl. 38, 450

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