Fibrinolytic activity and muscular exercise in heat

Abstract

The fibrinolytic activity of whole blood is increased by exposure to environmental heat stress. The increased fibrinolytic activity of muscular exercise is further increased if the muscular activity is performed in heat. In resting or exercising subjects who are heat acclimatized, the increased fibrinolytic activity due to heat exposure is less than that which occurs in the unacclimatized state. fibrinolysis and heat acclimatization in man; heat stress, exercise, and blood fibrinolytic activity Submitted on September 4, 1963