Airways hyperresponsiveness in high school athletes.

Unlabelled: Adult athletes have a higher prevalence (11%-50%) of exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB) and airways hyperresponsiveness (AHR) than the population at large (7%-11%): reports describing EIB/AHR in adolescent athletes are scant.

Hypotheses: 1) a minimum AHR prevalence of 20% would be revealed in a group of high school athletes; 2) demographic data would predict AHR; 3) AHR-positive athletes would preferentially choose low ventilation sports. Eucapnic voluntary hyperpnea (EVH) was used to test for AHR in 23% of all athletes (79 of 343) of a midwestern high school.