ReviewActa paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992)2022
Determinants of lung function changes in athletic swimmers. A review.
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- Post-Exercise Nasal Patency, Spirometry, and CBCT-Derived Lund-Mackay Scores in Competitive Swimmers: A Multivariate Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
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- Lung Function Changes with Swim Training in Healthy and Allergic Endurance Athletes.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025Article
- Swimming exercise support respiratory functions of children with mild intellectual disabilities: controlled study.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2025Article
- Body Positions and Physical Activity Levels Modulate the Ratio of Abdominal to Thoracic Breathing and Respiratory Rate in Young Individuals.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- The Puzzle of Marijuana Use and Forced Vital Capacity.Annals of the American Thoracic Society · 2024Review
- Pulmonary function in swimmers exposed to disinfection by-products: a narrative review.Frontiers in physiology · 2024Review
- Modeling exercise using optogenetically contractible Drosophila larvae.BMC genomics · 2022Article
- How Differential Are the Effects of Smoking Cannabis versus Tobacco on Lung Function?American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine · 2022Article
- Determinants of lung function changes in athletic swimmers. A review.Acta paediatrica (Oslo, Norway : 1992) · 2022Review
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Abstract
aimTo summarise lung function characteristics of athletic swimmers and discuss mechanisms explaining these changes while putting forward the lack of a clear understanding of the precise physiological factors implicated.
methodsLiterature search until 07.2021 on Medline and EMBASE using keywords swimming, athletes, respiratory physiology, lung development, lung function tests. Relevant articles in French and English were reviewed.
resultsWe found insufficient data to perform a meta-analysis. However, there is evidence that swimmers have better expiratory flows and increased baseline lung volumes than non-athletes or non-swimmers. Although these features can result from changes in lung development following intense training over the years, the contribution of a genetic predisposition and positive selection cannot be totally excluded.
conclusionDisentangling the participation of constitutional factors and years of hard training to explain the larger lung volumes of athletic swimmers is in favour of an adaptative response of the lungs to early swim training through modification of the pathway of lung development. There seems to be an optimal window of opportunity before the end of growth for these adaptational changes to occur. Precise mechanisms, and contribution of adaptative change on lung physiology, remain to be further studied.
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