THE EFFECT OF PHYSICAL CONDITIONING SUGGESTS ADAPTATION IN PROCOAGULANT AND FIBRINOLYTIC POTENTIAL

Acute exercise evokes a transient increase in procoagulant activity. We evaluated the effect of physical conditioning on the activation of the coagulation and fibrinolytic systems. Two groups of subjects of different aerobic endurance levels (athletes and controls with maximal oxygen uptake ( VO 2 max ) 68,4 and 52,6 ml·kg −1·min −1, respectively), were tested at rest and after standardized exercise at 80 % of their individual VO 2 max . There was a significant increase in prothrombinfragment 1+2 (F1+2) level among controls in response to standardized exercise (p