ORIGINAL
PAPERS – abstractSupervision
of
the
immune index level in high-performance athletes volleyball players
during
an annual cycle
Serbescu
Ioan
Sport
Medicine Department Timisoara
Abstract
Sport
practicing, due to the special conditions under which it occurs,
needs an immune system which could assure a perfect health status.
The immune system has two components: the innate immune system (IIS)
and the adaptive immune system (AIS). The number of lymphocytes per
mm
(normal = 2500 – 3500) may represent a useful marker for the
diagnosis of the protein-calorie malnutrition.
Specialists
in hematology recommend the calculation of the leukocytes/lymphocytes
coefficient (threshold value = 0.35).
The
total lymphocyte number may represent a marker of malnutrition only
if we exclude an infection, a disease associated with the depression
of the immune system (but the high-performance sports do not depress
the immune system?) or a hematological disease; stress and
corticotherapy, often used by athletes, may also induce
immunodepression! It has followed the evolution of the coefficient
leukocytes/leukocytes in various steps of our study carried out
during a sportive year, upon the volleyball players from the team
,,Timisoara University”.
Anyway,
in the absence of other specific tests, the supervision of this
coefficient could be used in the medical-sportive control of
volleyball players, participants in internal or international
competitions, with a guiding marker of the immune reactivity compared
to the stress induced by the sportive effort.
Key
words:
immune
system, leukocytes/lymphocytes coefficient, athletes.