Kenneth D Fitch

Summary

Affiliation: University of Western Australia
Country: Australia

Publications

  1. ncbi Proscribed drugs at the Olympic Games: permitted use and misuse (doping) by athletes
    Ken Fitch
    School Sports Science, Exercise and Health, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Western Australia, Australia
    Clin Med 12:257-60. 2012
  2. ncbi An overview of asthma and airway hyper-responsiveness in Olympic athletes
    Kenneth D Fitch
    School of Sports Science, Exercise and Health M408, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
    Br J Sports Med 46:413-6. 2012
  3. ncbi Australian association for exercise and sports science position statement on exercise and asthma
    Alan R Morton
    School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, University of Western Australia, Australia
    J Sci Med Sport 14:312-6. 2011
  4. ncbi Androgenic-anabolic steroids and the Olympic Games
    Kenneth D Fitch
    School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands 6009, Australia
    Asian J Androl 10:384-90. 2008
  5. ncbi Asthma and the elite athlete: summary of the International Olympic Committee's consensus conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 22-24, 2008
    Kenneth D Fitch
    School of Sports Science, Exercise and Health, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
    J Allergy Clin Immunol 122:254-60, 260.e1-7. 2008

Detail Information

Publications5

  1. ncbi Proscribed drugs at the Olympic Games: permitted use and misuse (doping) by athletes
    Ken Fitch
    School Sports Science, Exercise and Health, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Western Australia, Australia
    Clin Med 12:257-60. 2012
    ..This paper discusses Olympic athletes who have been known to dope at past Games and some medical indications and pitfalls in the TUE process...
  2. ncbi An overview of asthma and airway hyper-responsiveness in Olympic athletes
    Kenneth D Fitch
    School of Sports Science, Exercise and Health M408, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia
    Br J Sports Med 46:413-6. 2012
    ..Research is necessary to determine how many athletes will continue to experience asthma/AHR in the years after they cease intensive endurance training...
  3. ncbi Australian association for exercise and sports science position statement on exercise and asthma
    Alan R Morton
    School of Sport Science, Exercise and Health, University of Western Australia, Australia
    J Sci Med Sport 14:312-6. 2011
    ..A specific benefit of a physical training program is that it allows asthmatics to exercise with less bronchoconstriction at the same exercise stress, although it does not abolish or reduce airway hyperresponsiveness (AHR)...
  4. ncbi Androgenic-anabolic steroids and the Olympic Games
    Kenneth D Fitch
    School of Human Movement and Exercise Science, Faculty of Life and Health Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands 6009, Australia
    Asian J Androl 10:384-90. 2008
    ..Endocrinologists should be aware that on occasions, replacement testosterone (T) therapy may be authorized in sport as a therapeutic use exemption (TUE) and these circumstances are discussed...
  5. ncbi Asthma and the elite athlete: summary of the International Olympic Committee's consensus conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, January 22-24, 2008
    Kenneth D Fitch
    School of Sports Science, Exercise and Health, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia
    J Allergy Clin Immunol 122:254-60, 260.e1-7. 2008
    ..The policy of requiring Olympic athletes to demonstrate the presence of asthma, exercise-induced bronchoconstriction, or AHR to be approved to inhale beta(2)-agonists will continue...