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COVID-19 in Polish Ice Swimmers.

NCT04817280 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 2534

Last updated 2021-04-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Ice swimming is an increasingly common phenomenon in Poland. It has been confirmed that it has a beneficial effect on health by increasing the natural non-specific immunity to infections. In the face of the current Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic causing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), researchers decided to use a survey to check the incidence of COVID-19 among Polish ice swimmers, as well as recent ailments. Then, the researchers will compare the obtained results with epidemiological data for Poland.Researchers will also investigate the relationship between susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection and the blood group and Rh factor among ice swimmers.

Conditions

  • Covid19
  • SARS-CoV Infection
  • Resistance, Disease
  • Hypothermia
  • Hypothermia Due to Cold Environment

Interventions

OTHER

Ice Swimming

The intervention is not made in the course of a research study. Ice swimming has been introduced earlier by a given group. The group was made up of people who already swim in ice.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Wroclaw Medical University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sylwia Sulimiera Michalak, MD, PhD · Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical University of Zielona Gora

  • Edyta Wolny-Rokicka, MD, PhD · Department and Center of Radiotherapy, Multidisciplinary Provincial Hospital in Gorzow Wielkopolski

  • Andrzej Tukiendorf, Prof. · Department of Public Health, Wroclaw Medical University

  • Lukasz K Wysoczanski, MD · Department of Family Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University

  • Paulina N Wysoczanska, MD · Department of Family Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-12-01
Primary Completion
2021-01-17
Completion
2021-03-01

Countries

  • Poland

Study Locations

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