TY  - JOUR
A1  - Hadzic, Miralem
A1  - Eckestein, Max Lennart
A1  - Schugardt, Monique
T1  - The Impact of Sodium Bicarbonate on Performance in Response to Exercise Duration in Athletes
T2  - Journal of sports science & medicine : JSSM
N2  - According to recent literature sodium bicarbonate (NaHCO3) has been proposed as a performance enhancing aid by reducing acidosis during exercise. The aim of the current review is to investigate if the duration of exercise is an essential factor for the effect
of NaHCO3. To collect the latest studies from electronic database
of PubMed, study publication time was restricted from December 2006 to December 2016. The search was updated in July 2018. The studies were divided into exercise durations of > 4 or ≤ 4 minutes for easier comparability of their effects in different exercises. Only randomized controlled trials were included in this review. Of the 775 studies, 35 met the inclusion criteria. Study design, subjects, effects as well as outcome criteria were inconsistent throughout the studies. Seventeen of these studies reported
performance enhancing effects after supplementing NaHCO3. Eleven of twenty studies with exercise duration of ≤ 4 minutes showed positive and four diverse results after supplementing NaHCO3. On the other hand six of fifteen studies with an exercise duration of >4 minutes showed performance enhancing and two studies showed diverse results. Consequently, the duration of exercise might be influential for inducing a performance enhancing effect when supplementing NaHCO3, but to which extent, remains unclear due to the inconsistencies in the study results.
KW  - Sodium bicarbonate
KW  - supplementation
KW  - acute
KW  - chronic
KW  - performance outcome
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/42803
UR  - https://www.jssm.org/hfabst.php?id=jssm-18-271.xml
SN  - 1303-2968
IS  - 18
SP  - 271
EP  - 281
PB  - Department of Sports Medicine, Medical Faculty of Uludag University
CY  - Bursa, Turkey
ER  -