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Methodological Considerations in Exercise Endocrinology

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Endocrinology of Physical Activity and Sport

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The intent of this chapter is to provide an overview of the background information on methodological factors that influence and add variance to endocrine outcome measurements typically used in exercise studies. It is well established that numerous factors such as sex, ambient temperature, age, and training status can influence hormonal responses to exercise, but measurements can also be dramatically influenced by simply the means chosen to sample specimens (e.g., venipuncture vs. catheterization). Lack of knowledge and experience with such influencing factors can compromise the accuracy and validity of exercise endocrinology research. Our purpose in doing this chapter is to aid and improve the quality of exercise science research of investigators inexperienced in endocrinology. For the purpose of this review, we categorized influencing factors as those that are “physiological” and those that are “procedural-analytical” and address steps and actions researchers can take to account for their influence. It is recommended that researchers should design their studies to monitor, control, and adjust for the physiological and procedural-analytical factors discussed within this chapter. By doing so, they will find less variance in their hormonal outcomes and thereby will increase the validity of their physiological data. These actions can assist the researcher in the interpretation and understanding of endocrine data and, in turn, make their research more scientifically rigorous.

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  2. Department of Exercise & Sport Science, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA

    Abbie E. Smith-Ryan

  3. Juntendo University Graduate School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan

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Hackney, A.C., Smith-Ryan, A.E., Fink, J.E. (2020). Methodological Considerations in Exercise Endocrinology. In: Hackney, A., Constantini, N. (eds) Endocrinology of Physical Activity and Sport. Contemporary Endocrinology. Humana, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33376-8_1

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