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- Title
Relationship between plant supplements and sports - from the perspective of PubMed publications.
- Authors
Jurcău, Ramona; Jurcău, Ioana
- Abstract
Background. Plant supplements (PS) are more and more often used in sport (S), as well as in the profile research area. Aims. The aim was the evaluation of the PS+S relationship, through the analysis of PubMed publications over the last 28 years. Methods. The PS+S relationship over the period 1985-2013, in which, until March 2014, there were publications with this combination of keywords, was analyzed; two criteria of analysis were used: a) the criterion of time - average per year for the periods 1985-1989, 1999-1999, 2000-2009, and the number of publications per year for the years 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013; b) the criterion of PubMed filters, evaluating three PubMed filters - Text availability, Species and Sex - each of them with the corresponding subfilters. Results. There are differences: a) between averages over 28 years: for the total number of publications (N), abstracts (A) and full-text (FT), compared with free full-text (FFT), over all analyzed periods of time; b) between publications with human subjects (H) and those with animals (An); c) between studies on males (M), females (F) and both genders (MF). Conclusions. 1) The total number of publications over 28 years is important, 172. 2) The number of publications with FFT was reduced compared to N, A and FT. 3) Studies with H prevailed, compared to An, and the predominantly analyzed gender was M. 4) Given the growing number of publications on the relationship between herbal supplements and sport, we can deduce their importance in sports activity.
- Subjects
DIETARY supplements; NUTRITION; PLANT extracts; SPORTS; SPORTS events; EXERCISE
- Publication
Palestrica of the Third Millennium Civilization & Sport, 2014, Vol 15, Issue 2, p112
- ISSN
1582-1943
- Publication type
Article