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J Appl Physiol 59: 784-791, 1985;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 59, Issue 3 784-791, Copyright © 1985 by American Physiological Society

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Bronchoconstriction in asthmatics exposed to sulfur dioxide during repeated exercise

L. J. Roger, H. R. Kehrl, M. Hazucha and D. H. Horstman

Young male volunteers with mild asthma and hypersensitivity to methacholine were exposed for 75 min with natural breathing to 0.0, 0.25, 0.5, and 1.0 ppm SO2. Each exposure included three 10-min periods of moderate treadmill exercise (minute ventilation 21 l . m-2 . min-1, O2 consumption 25 ml . kg-1, and heart rate 120/min). Specific airway resistance (sRaw) was not significantly increased after exercise in 0.25 ppm SO2, relative to the control exposure (clean air). In 0.5 and 1.0 ppm SO2, sRaw was increased twofold and threefold above preexposure levels, respectively, corresponding to increases of 3.2 and 9.2 cmH2O . s in excess over the increases seen in clean air (P less than 0.001). There was a broad range of responses to exercise and SO2. The increases in sRaw after the second and third exercises were significantly less than after the first exercise. Respiratory impedance measured by forced random noise suggests that the induced bronchoconstriction was primarily associated with peripheral airways. These results confirm that mild asthmatics selected for methacholine sensitivity have as a group significant bronchoconstriction in response to short-term moderate exercise with natural breathing in 1.0 and 0.5 ppm SO2. In addition, the induced bronchoconstriction is decreased after short-term repeated exercise in SO2.


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