KROK 1 2012 – Question 125 · KROK (Medicine) · Pathophysiology
During influenza epidemic 40% of pupils who didn’t go in for sports were affected by the disease, and among the pupils who regularly did physical exercises this index was only 20%. What adaptative mechanisms determined such a low sickness rate of pupils participating in the sports?
- A. Biochemical adaptation
- B. Physiological adaptation
- C. Genetic adaptation
- D. Cross adaptation
- E. Specific adaptation
Hint
Notice that the benefit shows up against influenza, which is not the load that sport imposes, and ask which kind of adaptation can explain that.
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