title: Beneficial role of exercise on scuba diving.
abstract: Exercising before, during, or after diving is proscribed because of the assumption that it would increase incidence of decompression sickness. Our findings show that exercise performed in a timely fashion before diving or during decompression will reduce the number of venous gas bubbles formed. Exercise after diving did not increase the number of bubbles. Nitric oxide seems to play a protective role.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physiology, University of Split School of Medicine, Split, Croatia. zdujic@bsb.mefst.hr
authors.forename: Zelijko
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Dujic
authors.forename: Zoran
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Valic
authors.forename: Alf O
authors.initials: AO
authors.lastname: Brubakk
mesh_terms: D003665:Decompression Sickness / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control; D004242:Diving / Q000502:physiology*; D004452:Echocardiography; D015444:Exercise; D006801:Humans; D009569:Nitric Oxide / Q000097:blood; D009664:Norway; D005082:Physical Exertion / Q000502:physiology
chemical_list: D009569:Nitric Oxide