Environmental, Occupational, Aging (Integrative) Physiology Laboratory, Haute Ecole Bruxelles-Brabant (HE2B), 1160 Brussels.
Association Internationnale pour le Développement de l'Apnée, AIDA International, Rue de l'Athénée 4, C/O Mentha Avocats, CH-1211 Genève 12, Switzerland.
Undersea Hyperb Med. 2024 Third Quarter;51(3):213-219.
Preterm birth may significantly impair the functional and anatomical development of the respiratory system and could be a background for various life-long medical sequelae. Prematurity has been recently connected to changes in hypercapnic reactions at adult age. Altered reactions to pCO in premature-born subjects may impact breath-hold underwater exercises (freediving) results.
AIDA International provided the list of top-100 rankings freediving athletes for the years 2016- 2021 with their personal best results. Data was collected using a subject questionnaire developed for the study (subject-reporting outcomes).
March 2022 to June 2022.
Within the sample of divers (n=146), 17.1% (n=25) were born prematurely. 13.7% (n=20) were moderate to late preterm, and 3.4% (n=6) were very preterm. The proportion of the athletes whose birth was premature was 18.1% for females and 16.2% for males. These figures are higher than the standardized estimated mean of the preterm birth rate of 8.5% calculated based on the geographical distribution of our sample. There was no difference in best personal results in freediving between the preterm and full-term elite freedivers.
The proportion of preterm within the elite freedivers is higher than could be estimated for the general population. There is no difference in best personal results between preterm and full-term elite freedivers.
早产可能会显著影响呼吸系统的功能和解剖结构发育，并可能成为各种终身医疗后遗症的背景。最近，早产儿的高碳酸血症反应变化与成年后的变化有关。早产儿对 pCO 的反应改变可能会影响闭气水下运动（自由潜水）的结果。
AIDA International 提供了 2016 年至 2021 年排名前 100 的自由潜水运动员名单，以及他们的个人最佳成绩。使用为该研究开发的主题问卷（主题报告结果）收集数据。
2022 年 3 月至 2022 年 6 月。
在所研究的潜水员样本（n=146）中，有 17.1%（n=25）为早产儿。13.7%（n=20）为中度至晚期早产儿，3.4%（n=6）为非常早产儿。早产儿运动员的比例为女性 18.1%，男性 16.2%。这些数字高于根据我们样本的地理分布计算的早产儿估计率 8.5%的标准化平均值。早产儿和足月精英自由潜水员之间的自由潜水个人最佳成绩没有差异。
精英自由潜水员中的早产儿比例高于一般人群的估计比例。早产儿和足月精英自由潜水员之间的个人最佳成绩没有差异。
