How to detect young athletes at risk of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction?
Paediatr Respir Rev
; 44: 40-46, 2022 Dec.
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| ID: mdl-34740520
ABSTRACT
Exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) is a prevalent condition in elite athletes caused by transient airway narrowing during or after exercise. Young athletes nowadays start early to perform high level exercise, highlighting the need to screen for EIB in a younger population. The purpose of this review is to evaluate current evidence of pre-tests with high probability to predict a positive provocation test in young and adolescent athletes, aged 12-24â¯years and thus indicate whether a young athlete is at risk of having EIB. Up to now, there is no validated screening test available to increase the pre-test probability of a provocation test of EIB in young and adolescent athletes. We would recommend that a clinical guideline committee might consider the development of a flow chart to screen for EIB in adolescent athletes. It could be composed of a symptom-based questionnaire focusing on wheezing during exercise, atopic state, reversibility test (to exclude EIB with asthma) and completed with markers in blood/serum. However, more research is necessary.
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Asthma, Exercise-Induced
Type of study:
Etiology_studies
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Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
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Risk_factors_studies
Limits:
Adolescent
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Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Paediatr Respir Rev
Year:
2022
Document type:
Article