Occupational Medicine & Health Affairs
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Research Article

Electrocardiographic and Blood Electrolytes Findings in Athletic Students of Sports Academy in Bangladesh

¹Department of Physiology, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh

²Department of Public Health and Human Service, Hill 2 Ocean Climate Risk Awareness Group, New Zealand

³Department of Healthcare, Anglia Ruskin University London, UK

*Corresponding Author:

Juma Rahman
Research Consultant
Department of Public Health and Human Service
Hill 2 Ocean Climate Risk Awareness Group
14a Price Crescent Road. Mount Wellington
Auckland-1060, New Zealand
E-mail: jumarahman@hotmail.com

Received date: October 10, 2015; Accepted date: October 15, 2015; Published daet: October 22, 2015

Citation: Begum F, Rahman J, Kabir R (2015) Electrocardiographic and Blood Electrolytes Findings in Athletic Students of Sports Academy in Bangladesh. Occup Med Health Aff 3:218. doi: 10.4172/2329-6879.1000218

Copyright: © 2015 Begum F, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited

Regular intensive exercise and training may cause structural and functional changes in the heart and also in their electrolyte level. We conducted a case control study among 50 athletic students of 20-30 years old enrolled from a renowned sport academy of Bangladesh named Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protisthan (BKSP). 50 age-matched healthy non-athlete men were selected as controls. Electrocardiograph was recorded by Bionet Cardiocare-2000 (EKG-2000). Serum sodium, potassium and chloride levels were measured by The Beckman Coulter AU auto-analyzer, and serum bicarbonate level was measured by Dimension. Data were collected during the colder part of the year. In this study, heart rate was significantly (p<0.001) decreased and QRS duration was significantly (p<0.05) prolonged in study group than that of control group. Also, Serum sodium and Serum chloride level were lower and Serum potassium level was higher in study group than that of control group, which were statistically non-significant. These findings support other researchers conducted in different countries worldwide. Therefore routine screening of athlete’s will provide information regarding their physiologic adaptation to exercise and also helpful to measure water and electrolyte requirement before going for training session and match play.

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