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3378970

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
4
pubmed:dateCreated
1988-7-15
pubmed:abstractText
It has been suggested that calcium homeostasis is abnormal in the vascular smooth muscle of hypertensive patients and in the bronchial smooth muscle in asthmatics. We have found the mean baseline concentration of plasma ionized calcium to be significantly lower both in 12 asthmatics with exercise-induced asthma (EIA) [1.16 +/- 0.01 (SE) mmol/l, P less than 0.001] and in 20 asthmatics without EIA (1.16 +/- 0.01; P less than 0.001) compared with 42 healthy subjects (1.24 +/- 0.01). The mean concentrations of plasma ionized calcium were not significantly different in asthmatics with and without EIA when measured either before treadmill exercise, during the last seconds of this exercise, or 10 or 20 min after exercise but were significantly lower than in another seven healthy subjects who undertook the same exercise protocol. Total plasma calcium concentrations in the three exercising groups were not significantly different at any point in time. The results suggest that in bronchial asthma an alteration of calcium metabolism may be important, but they also suggest that there is no simple relationship between the plasma ionized calcium concentration and acute exercise-induced bronchoconstriction.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
8750-7587
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
64
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1354-8
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1988
pubmed:articleTitle
Low plasma concentrations of ionized calcium in patients with asthma.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Medicine, University of Bern, Inselspital, Switzerland.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't