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Hormonal aspects of overtraining syndrome: a systematic review

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, August 2017
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Title
Hormonal aspects of overtraining syndrome: a systematic review
Published in
BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, August 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13102-017-0079-8
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Flavio A. Cadegiani, Claudio E. Kater

Abstract

Overtraining syndrome (OTS), functional (FOR) and non-functional overreaching (NFOR) are conditions diagnosed in athletes with decreased performance and fatigue, triggered by metabolic, immune, hormonal and other dysfunctions and resulted from an imbalance between training stress and proper recovery. Despite previous descriptions, there is a lack of a review that discloses all hormonal findings in OTS/FOR/NFOR. The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate whether and which roles hormones play in OTS/FOR/NFOR. A systematic search up to June 15(th), 2017 was performed in the PUBMED, MEDLINE and Cochrane databases following PRISMA protocol, with the expressions: (1)overtraining, (2)overreaching, (3)overtrained, (4)overreached, or (5)underperformance, and (plus) (a)hormone, (b)hormonal, (c)endocrine, (d)adrenal, (e)cortisol, (f)GH, (g)ACTH, (h)testosterone, (i)IGF-1, (j)TSH, (k)T4, (l)T3, (m)LH, (n)FSH, (o)prolactin, (p) IGFBP-3 and related articles. A total of 38 studies were selected. Basal levels of hormones were mostly normal in athletes with OTS/FOR/NFOR compared with healthy athletes. Distinctly, stimulation tests, mainly performed in maximal exercise conditions, showed blunted GH and ACTH responses in OTS/FOR/NFOR athletes, whereas cortisol and plasma catecholamines showed conflicting findings and the other hormones responded normally. Basal hormone levels are not good predictor but blunted ACTH and GH responses to stimulation tests may be good predictors of OTS/FOR/NFOR.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 295 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 55 19%
Student > Master 46 16%
Student > Ph. D. Student 37 13%
Researcher 20 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 19 6%
Other 49 17%
Unknown 69 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 94 32%
Medicine and Dentistry 36 12%
Nursing and Health Professions 18 6%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 14 5%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 4%
Other 35 12%
Unknown 85 29%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 364. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 25 May 2023.
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