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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Brun, J.F. | Khaled, S. | Raynaud, E. | Bouix, D. | Micallef, J.P. | Orsetti, A.
Affiliations: Service d’Exploration Physiologique des Hormones et des Métabolismes, CHRU de Montpellier, F‐34059 Montpellier, France Fax: +33 4 67 33 89 63
Abstract: The life‐extending effects of regular exercise are related to a decrease in both coronary and peripheral vascular morbidity, associated with some improvements in cardiovascular risk factors. A possible link between the beneficial metabolic and hemodynamic effects of exercise could be blood rheology, which is markedly affected by exercise. We propose here a description of the hemorheological effects of exercise as a triphasic phenomenon. Short‐term effects of exercise are an increase in blood viscosity resulting from both fluid shifts and alterations of erythrocyte rheologic properties (rigidity and aggregability). Increased blood lactate, stress, and acute phase play a role in this process. Middle‐term effects of regular exercise are a reversal of these acute effects with an increase in blood fluidity, explained by plasma volume expansion (autohemodilution) that lowers both plasma viscosity and hematocrit. Long‐term effects further improve blood fluidity, parallel with the classical training‐induced hormonal and metabolic alterations. While body composition, blood lipid pattern, and fibrinogen improve (thus decreasing plasma viscosity), erythrocyte metabolic and rheologic properties are modified, with a reduction in aggregability and rigidity. On the whole, these improvements reflect a reversal of the so‐called “insulin‐resistance syndrome” induced by a sedentary lifestyle. Since impaired blood rheology has been demonstrated to be at risk for vascular diseases, the hemorheologic effects of exercise can be hypothesized to be a mechanism (or at least a marker) of risk reversal. This latter point requires further investigation. The physiological meaning of the triphasic pattern of exercise‐induced alterations of blood rheology is uncompletely understood, but increased blood fluidity may improve several steps of oxygen transfer to muscle, as clearly demonstrated in hypoxic conditions. Increasing evidence emerges from the literature, that blood fluidity is a physiological determinant of fitness.
Keywords: Blood viscosity, hematocrit, exercise, VO[TeX:] _{2\,\max}, training, overtraining, metabolic fitness, hemorheology, erythrocyte deformability, erythrocyte aggregation, blood lactate
Journal: Clinical Hemorheology and Microcirculation, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 89-104, 1998
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