Journal Information
Journal ID (publisher-id): BM
Journal ID (nlm-ta): Biochem Med (Zagreb)
Title: Biochemia Medica
Abbreviated Title: Biochem. Med. (Zagreb)
ISSN (print): 1330-0962
ISSN (electronic): 1846-7482
Publisher: Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Article Information
Copyright statement: ©Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine.
Copyright: 2023, Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry
License (open-access):
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Date received: 12 April 2024
Date accepted: 13 June 2024
Publication date: 05 August 2024
Publication date: 15 October 2024
Volume: 34
Issue: 3
Electronic Location Identifier: 030501
Publisher ID: bm-34-3-030501
DOI: 10.11613/BM.2024.030501
Laboratory medicine and sports: where are we now?
Sanja Marević[1]
Brankica Šimac[1]
Robert Buljubašić[9]
Luka Matanović[9]
Maja Cigrovski Berković[4]
[1] Clinical Department for Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
[2] School of Medicine, Catholic University of Croatia, Zagreb, Croatia
[3] Department of Medical Laboratory Diagnostics, University Hospital Sveti Duh, Zagreb, Croatia
[4] Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
[5] Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
[6] Medical Biochemistry Laboratory, Health Care Institution Glavić, Dubrovnik, Croatia
[7] Faculty of nursing and clinical nursing, University of Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik, Croatia
[8] Department of Clinical Chemistry, Sestre milosrdnice University Hospital Center, Zagreb, Croatia
[9] Department for Orthopedics and Traumatology, Clinic for Surgery, University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia
Author notes:
[*] Corresponding author: lderek@kbd.hr
Author contributions
All authors: Writing - review and editing.
Laboratory medicine in sport and exercise has significantly developed during the last decades with the awareness that physical activity contributes to improved health status, and is present in monitoring both professional and recreational athletes. Training and competitions can modify concentrations of a variety of laboratory parameters, so the accurate laboratory data interpretation includes controlled and known preanalytical and analytical variables to prevent misleading interpretations. The paper represents a comprehensive summary of the lectures presented during the 35th Annual Symposium of the Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine. It describes management of frequent sport injuries and sums up current knowledge of selected areas in laboratory medicine and sports including biological variation, changes in biochemical parameters and glycemic status. Additionally, the paper polemicizes sex hormone disorders in sports, encourages and comments research in recreational sports and laboratory medicine. In order to give the wider view, the connection of legal training protocols as well as monitoring prohibited substances in training is also considered through the eyes of laboratory medicine.
Keywords: sports; medical laboratory science; endocrinology; orthopaedics; biological variation
