(1.School of Physical Education,South China Normal University,Guangzhou 510006,China;2.Department of Dermatology,Guangzhou Logistics Hospital,Guangzhou 510052,China) Abstract: In order to probe into the effects of exercising of different intensities combined with medicament treat-ment on the area of skin lesion areas and ET-1 in plasma and tissue fluid of vitiligo patients, the authors selected 45 vitiligo patients and divided them randomly into 3 groups: a calm control (pure medicament) group, a medium in-tensity exercising (medium intensity exercising + medicament treatment) group, and a high intensity exercising (high intensity exercising + medicament treatment) group (each group included 15 patients), let the patients in the medium intensity exercising group run for 1 hour per time, at an exercising intensity that maintained the heart rate at 120-140 beats/min, let the patients in the high intensity exercising group do a rope skipping exercise for accumula-tively 1 hour per day and maintain their average heat rate at 160-170 beats/min during exercising, let the patients in the two exercising groups exercise for totally 16 weeks, 5 days per week, drew the patients’ blood and tissue fluid before and after 16-week exercising intervention, measured ET-1 mass concentration by applying radioimmunoas-say, determined the changing of copper ions by measuring trace elements in plasma, checked the changing of collat-eral blood vessels and vessel diameters by means of extremity vascular microcirculation, and revealed the following findings: 1)exercising increased ET-1 mass concentration in plasma and tissue fluid significantly, the patients in the high intensity exercising group had the most significant increase; 2)before and after 16-week exercising, the patients in calm control group and the two exercising groups had an increased number of serum copper ions, the patients in the calm control group had a significant increase, while the patients in the exercising groups had only a slight increase; 3)long term regular exercising increased the patients’ collateral blood vessels and vessel diameters, boosted blood cir-culation; 4)After the experiment, the shrinking of skin lesion areas of the patients in the three groups had a significant difference from that measured before the experiment, there was no significant difference in the shrunk area of skin le-sion areas between the patients in the three groups after the experiment, but the patients in the exercising groups had a larger shrunk area than the patients in the calm control group. The said findings indicated that exercising can be used as an auxiliary means for treating vitiligo patients, high intensity exercising therein produces a better effect. Key words: exercise medicine;vitiligo;endothelin-1;sports druy therapy |