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. 2020 Feb 4;17(3):956.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph17030956.

Cardiac Troponin T Release after Football 7 in Healthy Children and Adults

Rafel Cirer-Sastre  1   2 , Alejandro Legaz-Arrese  3 , Francisco Corbi  1   2 , Isaac López-Laval  3 , Juan José Puente-Lanzarote  4 , Vicenç Hernández-González  2   5 , Joaquin Reverter-Masia  2   5
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Cardiac Troponin T Release after Football 7 in Healthy Children and Adults

Rafel Cirer-Sastre et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

The objective of this study was to compare the release of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) after a football 7 match between two cohorts of children and adult players. Thirty-six male football players (children = 24, adult = 12) played a football 7 match, and cTnT was measured before, and 3 h after exercise. Concentrations of cTnT were compared between groups and time, and correlated with participants' characteristics, as well as internal and external exercise load. Cardiac troponin T was elevated in all participants (p < 0.001), and exceeded the upper reference limit for myocardial infarction in 25 (~70%) of them. Baseline concentrations were higher in adults (p < 0.001), but the elevation of cTnT was comparable between the groups (p = 0.37). Age (p < 0.001), body mass (p = 0.001) and height (p < 0.001), and training experience (p = 0.001) were associated to baseline cTnT values, while distance (p < 0.001), mean speed (p < 0.001), and peak (p = 0.013) and mean (p = 0.016) heart rate were associated to the elevation of cTnT. The present study suggests that a football 7 match evoked elevations of cTnT during the subsequent hours in healthy players regardless of their age. However, adults might present higher resting values of cTnT than children. In addition, results suggest that the exercise-induced elevations of cTnT might be mediated by exercise load but not participant characteristics.

Keywords: cardiac biomarkers; exercise physiology; maturation.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest. The funders of this study had no role in the design of the study; in the collection, analyses, or interpretation of data; in the writing of the manuscript, or in the decision to publish the results.

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Individual values of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) before and after the match, by group.
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