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[Clinico-functional respiratory assessment of the athlete with exercise-induced asthma or bronchospasm]
A Romano1, B Canino, R Lo Presti
1Istituto di Clinica Medica e Malattie Cardiovascolari, Università degli Studi, Palermo.
Minerva Medica
|December 18, 1998
Abstract:
Asthmatic subjects can only be allowed to take part in sport activities after a careful functional evaluation of pulmonary function. For sport disciplines which require a mainly anaerobic metabolism it is enough to evaluate the respiratory function at rest, while for sport disciplines which require a mainly aerobic metabolism it is necessary to use an exercise tolerance test. The functional tests used must be able to demonstrate not only the suitability of the subjects to take up a sport, but also to recommend an appropriate sport discipline.