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Uric Acid and Cortisol Levels in Plasma Correlate with Pre-Competition Anxiety in Novice Athletes of Combat Sports
Pre-competition anxiety is very prevalent in novice athletes, causing stress and drastic decreases in their performances. Cortisol plays a central role in the psychosomatic responses to stress and also in the physiology of strenuous exercise. Growing evidence links uric acid, an endogenous antioxida...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9221204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35741598 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12060712 |
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author | de Oliveira, Luis Fernando Garcia Souza-Junior, Tácito Pessoa Fechio, Juliane Jellmayer Gomes-Santos, José Alberto Fernandes Sampaio, Ricardo Camões Vardaris, Cristina Vasconcelos Lambertucci, Rafael Herling de Barros, Marcelo Paes |
author_facet | de Oliveira, Luis Fernando Garcia Souza-Junior, Tácito Pessoa Fechio, Juliane Jellmayer Gomes-Santos, José Alberto Fernandes Sampaio, Ricardo Camões Vardaris, Cristina Vasconcelos Lambertucci, Rafael Herling de Barros, Marcelo Paes |
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description | Pre-competition anxiety is very prevalent in novice athletes, causing stress and drastic decreases in their performances. Cortisol plays a central role in the psychosomatic responses to stress and also in the physiology of strenuous exercise. Growing evidence links uric acid, an endogenous antioxidant, with oxidative stress and anxiety, as observed in many depressive-related disorders. We here compared anxiety inventory scores (BAI and CSAI-2), cortisol and biomarkers of oxidative stress in the plasma of novice combat athletes (white and blue belts) before and after their first official national competition, when levels of stress are presumably high. Although the novice fighters did not reveal high indexes of anxiety on questionnaires, significant correlations were confirmed between cortisol and cognitive anxiety (Pearson’s r = 0.766, p-value = 0.002, and a ‘strong’ Bayesian inference; BF10 = 22.17) and between pre-post changes of plasmatic uric acid and somatic anxiety (r = 0.804, p < 0.001, and ‘very strong’ inference; BF10 = 46.52). To our knowledge, this is the first study to report such strong correlations between uric acid and pre-competition anxiety in novice combat athletes. The cause-consequence association between these indexes cannot be directly inferred here, although the interplay between uric acid and anxiety deserves further investigation. |
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spelling | pubmed-92212042022-06-24 Uric Acid and Cortisol Levels in Plasma Correlate with Pre-Competition Anxiety in Novice Athletes of Combat Sports de Oliveira, Luis Fernando Garcia Souza-Junior, Tácito Pessoa Fechio, Juliane Jellmayer Gomes-Santos, José Alberto Fernandes Sampaio, Ricardo Camões Vardaris, Cristina Vasconcelos Lambertucci, Rafael Herling de Barros, Marcelo Paes Brain Sci Article Pre-competition anxiety is very prevalent in novice athletes, causing stress and drastic decreases in their performances. Cortisol plays a central role in the psychosomatic responses to stress and also in the physiology of strenuous exercise. Growing evidence links uric acid, an endogenous antioxidant, with oxidative stress and anxiety, as observed in many depressive-related disorders. We here compared anxiety inventory scores (BAI and CSAI-2), cortisol and biomarkers of oxidative stress in the plasma of novice combat athletes (white and blue belts) before and after their first official national competition, when levels of stress are presumably high. Although the novice fighters did not reveal high indexes of anxiety on questionnaires, significant correlations were confirmed between cortisol and cognitive anxiety (Pearson’s r = 0.766, p-value = 0.002, and a ‘strong’ Bayesian inference; BF10 = 22.17) and between pre-post changes of plasmatic uric acid and somatic anxiety (r = 0.804, p < 0.001, and ‘very strong’ inference; BF10 = 46.52). To our knowledge, this is the first study to report such strong correlations between uric acid and pre-competition anxiety in novice combat athletes. The cause-consequence association between these indexes cannot be directly inferred here, although the interplay between uric acid and anxiety deserves further investigation. MDPI 2022-05-31 /pmc/articles/PMC9221204/ /pubmed/35741598 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12060712 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article de Oliveira, Luis Fernando Garcia Souza-Junior, Tácito Pessoa Fechio, Juliane Jellmayer Gomes-Santos, José Alberto Fernandes Sampaio, Ricardo Camões Vardaris, Cristina Vasconcelos Lambertucci, Rafael Herling de Barros, Marcelo Paes Uric Acid and Cortisol Levels in Plasma Correlate with Pre-Competition Anxiety in Novice Athletes of Combat Sports |
title | Uric Acid and Cortisol Levels in Plasma Correlate with Pre-Competition Anxiety in Novice Athletes of Combat Sports |
title_full | Uric Acid and Cortisol Levels in Plasma Correlate with Pre-Competition Anxiety in Novice Athletes of Combat Sports |
title_fullStr | Uric Acid and Cortisol Levels in Plasma Correlate with Pre-Competition Anxiety in Novice Athletes of Combat Sports |
title_full_unstemmed | Uric Acid and Cortisol Levels in Plasma Correlate with Pre-Competition Anxiety in Novice Athletes of Combat Sports |
title_short | Uric Acid and Cortisol Levels in Plasma Correlate with Pre-Competition Anxiety in Novice Athletes of Combat Sports |
title_sort | uric acid and cortisol levels in plasma correlate with pre-competition anxiety in novice athletes of combat sports |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9221204/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35741598 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/brainsci12060712 |
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