The effect of balneotherapy on C-reactive protein, serum cholesterol, triglyceride, total antioxidant status and HSP-60 levels
| Autor: | Sándor Balogh, Judit Fehér, Csaba Oláh, Mihály Oláh, György Nagy, Judit Kálmánczhey, Agnes Koncz, Tamás Bender |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Balneotherapy
Male Atmospheric Science medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis medicine.medical_treatment Physiology Antioxidants chemistry.chemical_compound Tap water medicine Ambulatory Care Humans Musculoskeletal Diseases Serum cholesterol Triglycerides Aged Ecology Triglyceride biology business.industry Balneology C-reactive protein Case-control study Chaperonin 60 Middle Aged Surgery Antioxidant capacity C-Reactive Protein Cholesterol chemistry Case-Control Studies Ambulatory biology.protein Female business |
| Zdroj: | International journal of biometeorology. 54(3) |
| ISSN: | 1432-1254 |
| Popis: | An increasing body of evidence substantiating the effectiveness of balneotherapy has accumulated during recent decades. In the present study, 42 ambulatory patients (23 males and 19 females, mean age 59.5 years) with degenerative musculoskeletal disease were randomised into one of two groups—bathing in tap water or in mineral water at the same temperature—and subjected to 30-min balneotherapy sessions on 15 occasions. Study parameters comprised serum levels of sensitised C-reactive protein (CRP), plasma lipids, heat shock protein (HSP-60) and total antioxidant status (TAS). In both groups, CRP levels followed a decreasing tendency, which still persisted 3 months later. At 3 months after balneotherapy, serum cholesterol levels were still decreasing in patients who had used medicinal water, but exhibited a trend towards an increase in the control group. Triglyceride levels followed a decreasing trend in both patient groups. TAS showed a declining tendency in both groups. No changes of HSP-60 levels were observed in either group. Balneotherapy with the thermal water from Hajduszoboszlo spa had a more pronounced physiological effect compared to that seen in the control group treated with tap water in a 3 month period. |
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