Hans-Hermann Dickhuth
University of Freiburg
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Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 1998
Manfred Lehmann; Carl Foster; Hans-Hermann Dickhuth; U. Gastmann
PURPOSE The parasympathetic, Addison type, overtraining syndrome represents the dominant modern type of this syndrome. Beside additional mechanisms, an autonomic or neuroendocrine imbalance is hypothesized as underlying. METHODS/RESULTS Several findings support this thesis. During heavy endurance training or overreaching periods, the majority of findings give evidence of a reduced adrenal responsiveness to ACTH. This is compensated by an increased pituitary ACTH release. In an early stage of the overtraining syndrome, despite increased pituitary ACTH release, the decreased adrenal responsiveness is no longer compensated. The cortisol response decreases. In an advanced stage of overtraining syndrome, the pituitary ACTH release also decreases. In this stage, there is additionally evidence for decreased intrinsic sympathetic activity and sensitivity of target organs to catecholamines. This is indicated by decreased catecholamine excretion during night rest, decreased beta-adrenoreceptor density, decreased beta-adrenoreceptor-mediated responses, and increased resting plasma norepinephrine levels and responses to exercise. However, this complete pattern is only observed subsequent to high-volume endurance overtraining at high caloric demands. CONCLUSION The described functional alterations of pituitary-adrenal axis and sympathetic system can explain persistent performance incompetence in affected athletes.
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 1998
Kai Roecker; Oliver Schotte; Andreas M. Niess; Thomas Horstmann; Hans-Hermann Dickhuth
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to examine the power of 16 parameters beside the individual anaerobic threshold (IAT) in predicting performance in various competition distances. METHODS This study examined 427 competitive runners to test the prediction probability of the IAT and other parameters for various running distances. All runners (339 men, 88 women; ages, 32.5 +/- 10.14 yr; training, 7.1 +/- 5.53 yr; training distance, 77.9 +/- 35.63 km.wk-1) performed an increment test on the treadmill (starting speed, 6 or 8 km.h-1; increments, 2 km.h-1; increment duration, 3 min to exhaustion). The heart rate (HR) and the lactate concentrations in hemolyzed whole blood were measured at rest and at the end of each exercise level. The IAT was defined as the running speed at a net increase in lactate concentration 1.5 mmol.L-1 above the lactate concentration at LT. RESULTS Significant correlations (r = 0.88-0.93) with the mean competition speed were found for the competition distances and could be increased using stepwise multiple regression (r = 0.953-0.968) with a set of additional parameters from the training history, anthropometric data, or the performance diagnostics. CONCLUSIONS The running speed at a defined net lactate increase thus produces an increasing prediction accuracy with increasing distance. A parallel curve of the identity straight lines with the straight lines of regression indicates the independence of at least a second independent performance determining factor.
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2003
Daniel König; Y O. Schumacher; Lothar Heinrich; Andreas Schmid; Aloys Berg; Hans-Hermann Dickhuth
PURPOSE Based on the determination of cardiac troponin (cTnT), brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), and echocardiographic measurements, recent investigations have reported myocardial damage and reversible cardiac dysfunction after prolonged endurance exercise in apparently healthy subjects. In the present study, we investigated the myocardial stress reaction in professional endurance athletes after strenuous competitive physical exercise. METHODS Eleven highly trained male professional road cyclists (age 27 +/- 4 yr; .VO2peak 67 +/- 5 mL.kg-1.min-1; training workload 34,000 +/- 2,500 km.yr-1) were examined. The following parameters were determined before and after one stage of a 5-d professional cycling race: BNP, cTnT (third-generation assay that shows no cross reactivity with skeletal TnT), creatine kinase (CK), creatine kinase MB (CKMB), myoglobin (Myo), and urea. All participants were submitted to a careful cardiac examination including echocardiography and stress ECG. RESULTS None of the athletes showed pathological findings in the cardiac examination. CK (P < 0.01), CKMB (P < 0.05), and Myo (P < 0.01) were increased after the race. Normal postexercise cTnT levels indicate that the increase in CK, CKMB, and Myo was of noncardiac origin. In contrast, BNP rose significantly from 47.5 +/- 37.5 to 75.3 +/- 55.3 pg.mL-1 (P < 0.01). Pre- and postexercise values of BNP as well as the individual exercise-induced increase in BNP were significantly correlated with age (R2 = 0.68, R2 = 0.66, and R2 = 0.58, respectively; P < 0.05). CONCLUSION Strenuous endurance exercise in professional road cyclists does not result in structural myocardial damage. The rise in BNP in older athletes may reflect a reversible, mainly diastolic left ventricular dysfunction. This needs to be confirmed by larger trials including different intensities, sports, and age groups.
European Journal of Applied Physiology | 1984
Manfred Lehmann; Hans-Hermann Dickhuth; P. Schmid; H. Porzig; J. Keul
SummarySix male non-endurance trained subjects (S) and six marathon runners (M) underwentgraded treadmill exercise (T) andisoproterenol stimulation (I; 2 and 4 Μg·min−1),β-adrenergic receptor density was additionally determined as the amount of3H-Dihydroalprenolol (DHA) specifically bound on intact polymorphonuclear leucocytes. Heart rate,
International Journal of Obesity | 2005
Korsten-Reck U; Kromeyer-Hauschild K; Wolfarth B; Hans-Hermann Dickhuth; Aloys Berg
Transfusion | 2008
Torben Pottgiesser; Wolfgang Specker; Markus Umhau; Hans-Hermann Dickhuth; Kai Roecker; Yorck Olaf Schumacher
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Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2003
Andreas M. Niess; Elvira Fehrenbach; Günther Strobel; Kai Roecker; Elisabeth Marion Schneider; Julia Buergler; Simone Fuss; Rainer Lehmann; Hinnak Northoff; Hans-Hermann Dickhuth
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise | 2000
Andreas M. Niess; Markus Sommer; Elke Schlotz; Hinnak Northoff; Hans-Hermann Dickhuth; Elvira Fehrenbach
uptake, lactate, plasma noradrenaline, and adrenaline were estimated during T. Heart rate, stroke volume, cardiac output, as well as lactate, glucose, free fatty acids (FFA), and glycerol levels in the blood were determined during I. M showed the known training-dependent responses during T, such as lower heart rates, lactate levels, and plasma catecholamines at identical work loads, as well as higher
The Aging Male | 2011
Peter Deibert; Florian Solleder; Daniel König; Mara Z. Vitolins; Hans-Hermann Dickhuth; Albert Gollhofer; Aloys Berg
Herz | 2004
Hans-Hermann Dickhuth; Kai Röcker; Frank Mayer; Daniel König; Ulrike Korsten-Reck
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