Ableitung von Referenzbereichen ausgewählter Blutparameter bei gesunden österreichischen Sportler*innen

I finally finished my master thesis! If you want to read about reference intervals for healthy athletes, you have the same choices as with the bachelor thesis:

• read it in German
• learn German
• translate the whole thing

In short: I calculated reference intervals for seven blood parameters for healthy Austrian athletes and evaluated differences between my intervals and generally used intervals for health evaluations. With this study, I wanted to investigate significant differences in blood parameters due to sport. I calculated intervals for erythrocytes, hemoglobin, hematocrit, mean corpuscular volume (MCV), leukocytes, platelets and blood urea nitrogen (BUN). I then tested for differences between sport specific- and general intervals.

The goal of my study was to check if specific intervals for physical active people are needed to evaluate their health status accurately.

The conclusion of my thesis is that much larger study collectives are needed, and therefore more studies need to be done. Even though my collective was quite small, my thesis shows significant differences between reference intervals. Therefore, specific intervals should be calculated for physical active people to be able to properly diagnose and give according medical consultation.