• DOI:10.1056/NEJMOA043901
Corpus ID: 42909509

Hyponatremia among runners in the Boston Marathon.

@article{Almond2005HyponatremiaAR,
  title={Hyponatremia among runners in the Boston Marathon.},
  author={C. Almond and A. Shin and E. Fortescue and R. Mannix and D. Wypij and B. Binstadt and C. Duncan and D. Olson and Ann E Salerno and J. Newburger and D. Greenes},
  journal={The New England journal of medicine},
  year={2005},
  volume={352 15},
  pages={
          1550-6
        }
}

C. Almond, A. Shin, +8 authors D. Greenes

Published 2005

Medicine

The New England journal of medicine

BACKGROUND Hyponatremia has emerged as an important cause of race-related death and life-threatening illness among marathon runners. [...] Key Method Subjects completed a survey describing demographic information and training history. After the race, runners provided a blood sample and completed a questionnaire detailing their fluid consumption and urine output during the race. Prerace and postrace weights were recorded.Expand Abstract

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