The Effects of Exercise Training on Plasma Volume Variations: A
                    Systematic Review

Hassane Zouhal; Fatma Rhibi; Amal Salhi; Ayyappan Jayavel; Anthony C. Hackney; Ayoub Saeidi; Karuppasamy Govindasamy; Claire Tourny-Chollet; Cain C.T. Clark; Abderraouf Ben Abderrahman

doi:10.1055/a-1667-6624

International Journal of Sports Medicine, Table of Contents

Int J Sports Med 2023; 44(06): 406-419
DOI: 10.1055/a-1667-6624

Review

The Effects of Exercise Training on Plasma Volume Variations: A Systematic Review

Hassane Zouhal

¹University of Rennes 2, M2S (Laboratoire Mouvement, Sport, Santé) - EA 1274, Rennes, France

,

Fatma Rhibi

¹University of Rennes 2, M2S (Laboratoire Mouvement, Sport, Santé) - EA 1274, Rennes, France

²HP2 laboratory, INSERM U1042, University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France

,

Amal Salhi

³Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Ksar-Saïd, Manouba, Tunisia

,

Ayyappan Jayavel

⁴SRM College of Physiotherapy, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur Kancheepuram (DT), Tamilnadu, India

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Anthony C. Hackney

⁵Departments of Exercise & Sport Science and Nutrition, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

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Ayoub Saeidi

⁶Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Kurdistan, Sanandaj, Iran

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Karuppasamy Govindasamy

⁷Department of Physical Education & Sports Science, SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Kattankulathur, Tamilnadu, India

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Claire Tourny-Chollet

⁸Department of Sport Sciences, UFR- STAPS, University of Rouen, Rouen, France

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Cain C.T. Clark

⁹Centre for Intelligent Healthcare, Coventry University, Coventry, United-Kingdom

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Abderraouf Ben Abderrahman

³Higher Institute of Sport and Physical Education of Ksar-Saïd, Manouba, Tunisia

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Abstract

The aim of this systematic review was to summarize the evidence on the acute and long-term effects of exercise training on PV, in both trained and untrained individuals and to examine associations between changes in %PVV and change in physical/physiological performance. Despite the status of participants and the exercise duration or intensity, all the acute studies reported a significant decrease of PV (effect size: 0.85<d<3.45, very large), and ranged between 7 and 19.9%. In untrained individuals, most of studies reported a significant increase of PV in response to different kind of training including endurance training and high intensity interval training (effect size: 0.19<d<3.52, small to very large), and ranged from 6.6 to 16%. However, in trained individuals the results are equivocal. We showed that acute exercise appears to induce a significant decrease of PV in both healthy untrained and trained individuals in response to several exercise modalities. Moreover, there is evidence that long-term exercise training induced a significant increase of PV in healthy untrained individuals. However, it seems that there is no consensus concerning the effect of long-term exercise training on PV in trained individuals.

Key words

hemoglobin - hematocrit - blood volume - red blood cells

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