The Prevalence of Exercise-Induced Bronchospasm in Elite Athletes

AbstractThe aim of this study was investigate the prevalence of exercise-induced bronchospasm in elite athletes. Exercise-induced bronchospasm was defined as at decreasing equal or more than 10% in FEV1, decreasing equal or more than 15% in FEF25-75% and decreasing equal or more than 25% in PEFR. The statistical society includes all the professional basketball players in 8 teams of super league from Iran, Khuzestan province. 20 players are selected randomly as the sample group. Before and after RAST anaerobic test were measured some of pulmonary indexes include FEV1, PEFR and FEF25-75%. all statistical analysis was accomplished by using Spss (V 16). All collected data were assessed by dependent T-test. Statistical significant was conferred at p=0.05. The findings research showed that In the three measured indexes a were observed meaningfully and paralleled decrease of 12.60%, 7.8%, and 5.41% relatively in FEV1, PEFR and FEF25-75% (P