Acute physiological responses and muscle recovery in females: a randomised controlled trial of muscle damaging exercise in hypoxia

Table 3 Recovery characteristics of inflammatory blood marker after the muscle damaging exercise task. (Normalised to baseline ± SD)

	BL	24-hrs	48-hrs	72-hrs	p-value within
CK %
HYP CON	100 ± 0 100 ± 0	538.5 ± 655.3 372.4 ± 235.6	268.4 ± 266.3 236.3 ± 159.7	187.7 ± 149.3 256.1 ± 402.3	All > 0.05 All > 0.05
CRP %
HYP CON	100.0 ± 0 100.0 ± 0	127.0 ± 46.1 119.3 ± 26.3	117.0 ± 27.0 104.8 ± 12.8	105.9 ± 12.4 100.8 ± 10.0	All > 0.05 All > 0.05
BSR %
HYP CON	100.0 ± 0 100.0 ± 0	128.3 ± 50.1 112.6 ± 39.1	172.1 ± 105.8 149.8 ± 55.3	126.0 ± 54.0 142.4 ± 43.1	All > 0.05 All > 0.05

Legend: CK creatine kinase, CRP C-reactive protein, BSR blood sedimentation rate, % normalised to baseline, HYP hypoxia, CON normoxia

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