KROK 1 2010 – Question 95 · 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. Specific adaptation
- B. Physiological adaptation
- C. Biochemical adaptation
- D. Cross adaptation
- E. Genetic adaptation
Hint
Ask what happens to resistance towards unrelated stressors such as infection when the body has been repeatedly trained against physical load.
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