Changes in blood viscosity with heavy and light exercise.
To clarify the relationship of the intensity of acute exercise to sudden cardiac death, we examined the effects of short-term heavy and light exercise on whole blood viscosity. Nine healthy sedentary male volunteers performed ten minutes of heavy (more than 95% of maximum oxygen consumption) or light (60% to 65% of maximum oxygen consumption) exercise. Blood samples were obtained before, immediately after, and one hour after exercise. The whole blood viscosity was immediately examined with an oscillation-type viscometer and was found to increase significantly after exercise and subsequently return to baseline levels within one hour after exercise. The whole blood viscosity increased by a similar degree after heavy or light exercise. Therefore, our results suggest that there is a similar risk of sudden cardiac death, due to increased whole blood viscosity, after short-term heavy or light exercise.
Hitosugi
Masahito
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Department of Legal Medicine, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Mibu, Tochigi, Japan. hitosugi@dokkyomed.ac.jp
Kawato
Hitoshi
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Nagai
Toshiaki
T
Ogawa
Yoshinori
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Niwa
Munehiro
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Iida
Naoko
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Yufu
Tetsuo
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Tokudome
Shogo
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D000328:Adult; D001809:Blood Viscosity; D016757:Death, Sudden, Cardiac / Q000209:etiology; D004562:Electrocardiography; D015444:Exercise; D005080:Exercise Test; D006339:Heart Rate; D006400:Hematocrit; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010101:Oxygen Consumption