NCT01431118

Iron Metabolism in Dragon Boat Athletes

Iron Metabolism in Dragon Boat Athletes - An Analysis of Changes in Blood Count Parameters Under Sport-specific Stress

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Giessen · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of the study is: * To investigate the effect of sport-specific stress in the iron metabolism of dragon boat athletes * To investigate the effects of sport-specific stress in the activity of pro-hepcidin and hepcidin

Detailed description

This investigation evaluates the effects of sport-specific stress in iron metabolism of dragon boat athletes. Recent studies showed a significant increase in hepcidin activity under exercise (Röcker L. et al.(2005): Iron regulatory protein hepcidin is increased in female athletes after a marathon. European Journal of Applied Physiology, S. 95, 569-571)which possibly influences the iron metabolism. In particular in this investigation the activity of pro-hepcidin and hepcidin under sport-specific stress is analysed. Therefore elite dragonboat athletes will be included to this study. Every athlete is tested once. At one exercise day from every athlete the iron metabolism especially the change of hepcidin, prohepcidin and iron before and after a specific dragonboat intervention is analysed.

Conditions

• Anaemia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	specific dragon boating training intervention	male athletes of the german national dragon boat team performing three specific training units at one day
OTHER	specific dragon boat intervention	women athletes of the german national dragon boat team performing two specific training units and one weight lifting test at one day

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-04-01
• Primary completion: 2012-04-01
• Completion: 2012-04-01
• First posted: 2011-09-09
• Last updated: 2012-07-24