Association of High Cardiovascular Fitness and the Rate of Adaptation to Heat Stress.

This study aimed to compare changes in genes expression associated with inflammation and apoptosis in response to heat stress caused by sauna between people with varying cardiorespiratory fitness levels. We hypothesis that high cardiorespiratory level caused higher positive changes after four weeks of sauna bathing. Blood samples were taken at rest before and after the first and last sauna sessions and 48 hours after the last sauna session and used to assay HSP70 , HSP27 , interleukin 6 , and interleukin 10 genes expression in blood with quantitative real-time qRT-PCR.