Key result
Intense physical activity is linked to higher CRP and mean platelet volume during competitive basketball.
Why the study?
Acute or intense exercise in elite athletes can cause infections, inflammations, muscle injuries, or cardiovascular disorders that lack rapid and efficient diagnosis due to absence of continuous monitoring.
Does monitoring of specific biochemical biomarkers help in assessing the health condition of elite basketball players during the season?
Observational (n=12)
No
Does monitoring of specific biochemical biomarkers help in assessing the health condition of elite basketball players during the season?
p-value: p=0.0014
Continuous monitoring of serum biomarkers in elite athletes may help safeguard health and adapt workouts to prevent diseases and injuries.
Altered biomarkers during intense training may reflect physiological stress; hypothesis-generating for monitoring in athletes, requiring validation before adoption.
Laboratory medicine in sports medicine is taking on an ever-greater role in the assessment and monitoring of an athlete's health condition. The acute or intense exercise practiced by elite athletes can lead to the appearance of infections, inflammations, muscle injuries or cardiovascular disorders, whose diagnosis is not always rapid and efficient, as there is no continuous monitoring of the athlete. The absence of such monitoring can have serious consequences in terms of recovery of the professional athlete. These imbalances can induce metabolic adaptations which translate into alterations of specific parameters in terms of concentration and activity. The aim of this study was to follow the variation of specific biochemical biomarkers in a basketball team participating to the maximum championship during different phases of the agonistic season. The evaluation of serum biomarkers can help doctors to safeguard the athlete's health and sports trainers to adapt workouts, thus avoiding the appearance of diseases and injuries that in some cases can be underestimated by becoming irreversible ailments that do not allow the athlete to return to a healthy state. This information can be useful to create athlete biologic passports.
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Mennitti et al. (2020) conducted an observational in Healthy professional athletes (n=12). Intense physical exercise (professional basketball training and competition) vs. Baseline (0 months) was evaluated on Serum C-reactive protein (CRP) levels at 3 months (p=0.0014). Intense physical activity during a 3-month competitive basketball season significantly increased C-reactive protein (p=0.0014) and mean platelet volume, while decreasing vitamin D and lactate dehydrogenase levels.
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