How do marathon runners fare?

How do marathon runners fare?

The opportunity was taken to find out what happened to a group of runners during and after a provincial marathon race and to assess the influence of various factors on the problems and rate of recovery. METHOD AND RESULTS There were 415 entrants to the 1983 Guildford Marathon disclosing a true intent to run the full marathon by entering the second circuit of the course and 386 (93%) completed t...

Do some marathon runners bleed into the gut?

How Do the Most Vulnerable Populations Fare?

This study examined access to care for uninsured and Medicaid-insured community health center patients in comparison to nonhealth center patients nationally. Using nationally representative data from 2 major surveys in 2002, there was a positive association between seeking care in community health centers and self-reported access to care for both uninsured and Medicaid patients. This suggests t...

Gastrointestinal disturbances in marathon runners

To determine the prevalence of various gastrointestinal disturbances related to long-distance rnning and its effect on weight, diet and everyday digestive problems, we gave a questionnaire to 279 leisure-time marathon runners, comprising 10% of the participants in a local marathon race. Their answers disclosed a prevalence of dietary changes, weight reduction and altered bowel habits (mainly lo...

Gastric emptying in marathon runners.

Radionuclide gastric emptying studies using 99m-Tc human serum albumin egg omelette have been carried out in 10 long distance runners at rest and during a 90 minute run at sustained speed. Resting values are compared with controls comprising 10 sedentary subjects. Runners show a significantly accelerated basal gastric emptying (runners t 1/2 = 67.7 (5.9) min; sedentaries t 1/2 = 85.3 (4.5) min,...