AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Epidemiology of most common diseases in soprtsmen;
• Individual and environmental risk factor of sport relat4ed diseases;
• Application of food intervention as related to the different stages of training;
• Advance molecular methods to evaluate sport performance: knowledge of advantages and limits.

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Descriptive and analytic epidemiology of trauma diseases in the sportsmen.

Tendons disease in sportsmen: epidemiology and prevention.

Respiratory diseases in sportsmen: epidemiology and prevention

Sudden heart death in sportsmen: epidemiology.

Food nutrition in sportsmen.

Molecular biomarkers as applied to the analysis of sports: genomic and postgenomic biomarkers.

Molecular genomics in sportsmen: genetics of individual attitude to sports

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

Brandi et al., Igiene e Sanità Pubblica per Scienze Motorie, Delfino Ed