Title |
Ageing and endurance training effects on quantity and quality of pulmonary vascular bed in healthy men
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Published in |
Respiratory Research, January 2014
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DOI | 10.1186/1465-9921-15-8 |
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Authors |
Ghanima Al Dandachi, Cécile Londner, Aurore Caumont-Prim, Laurent Plantier, Brigitte Chevalier-Bidaud, Jean-François Toussaint, François-Denis Desgorces, Christophe Delclaux |
Abstract |
It has recently been demonstrated that in healthy individuals, peak oxygen consumption is associated with a greater pulmonary capillary blood volume and a more distensible pulmonary circulation. Our cross-sectional study suggests that, in healthy men aged 20 to 60 years (n = 63), endurance sport practice (vigorous-intensity domain of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire) is associated with better quantity (pulmonary capillary blood volume) and quality (slope of increase in lung diffusion for carbon monoxide on exercise) of the pulmonary vascular bed, partly counterbalancing the deleterious effects of ageing, which remains to be demonstrated in a prospective longitudinal design. |
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