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Serum, urinary, and fecal calcium changes in trained and untrained subjects during prolonged hypokinetic and ambulatory conditions

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Electrolyte metabolism undergoes significant changes in trained subjects, but it is unknown if it undergoes significant changes in untrained subjects during hypokinesia (decreased movement). The aim of this study was to measure calcium (Ca) changes in trained and untrained subjects during prolonged hypokinesia (HK).

Studies were done during 30 d of a pre-HK period and 364 d of a HK period. Forty male trained and untrained volunteers aged 23–26 yr were chosen as subjects. All subjects were equally divided into four groups: trained ambulatory control subjects (TACS), trained hypokinetic subjects (THKS), untrained hypokinetic subjects (UHKS), and untrained ambulatory control subjects (UACS). The THKS and UHKS groups were kept under an average running distance of 0.7 km/d.

Fecal Ca excretion, urinary Ca and magnesium (Mg) excretion, serum ionized calcium (CaI), Ca, Mg, intact parathyroid hormone (iPTH) and 1,25 dihydroxyvitamin D [1,25 (OH)2 D] concentration, body weight, and peak oxygen uptake were measured. Fecal Ca loss, urinary Ca and Mg excretion, and serum CaI, Mg, and Ca increased significantly (p ≤ 0.01), whereas serum iPTH and 1,25 (OH)2 D concentration body weight and peak oxygen uptake decreased significantly (p ≤ 0.01) in the THKS and UHKS groups when compared with the TACS and UACS groups. The measured parameters were much greater and much faster in the THKS group than in the UHKS group. By contrast, the corresponding parameters did not change significantly in the TACS and UACS groups when compared with the baseline control values.

It was concluded that prolonged HK induces significant fecal, urinary, and serum Ca changes in the hypokinetic subjects when compared with control subjects. However, fecal, urinary, and serum Ca changes were much greater and appeared much faster in the THKS group than the UHKS group.

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    Yan G. Zorbas, Vladimir L. Yarullin, Sergei D. Denogradov, Victor B. Afonin & Vassily J. Kakurin

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Zorbas, Y.G., Yarullin, V.L., Denogradov, S.D. et al. Serum, urinary, and fecal calcium changes in trained and untrained subjects during prolonged hypokinetic and ambulatory conditions. Biol Trace Elem Res 73, 211–229 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1385/BTER:73:3:211

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