3.6 Rhinosinusitis
To our knowledge, hardly anything is known about rhinosinusitis in
athletes. Gelardi mentions in his study that 3 % of swimmers had an
acute rhinosinusitis 38 and one other study describes
sinonasal mucosal hypertrophy in divers, possibly due to pressure
differences 49. However, to our knowledge, no study
has investigated the presence of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) in the
athletic population, although this lies within the line of expectation
since infection and atopy are considered to be risk factors for the
development of CRS 21.