TABLE 5.

Characteristics of the participants in included articles.

Study	Sample size (N) Final (Initial)	Level	Sex	Age (years)(mean ± SD)	Stature (cm)(mean ± SD)	Body mass (kg)(mean ± SD)
Long-term effect of basketball training periods on salivary marker levels
Andre et al. 2018 [26]	12	Elite Collegiate	Male	n/a	n/a	n/a
Arruda et al. 2013 [23]	12	Elite	Female	26.2 ± 3.9	183.1 ± 9.8	74.5 ± 10.1
Atalag et al. 2019 [32]	Basketball players: 36	Sub-Elite Collegiate	Male	Basketball players 21.32 ± 1.7	Basketball players 191.43 ± 9.02	Basketball players98.99 ± 16.15
Gonzalez-Bono et al.2002 [51]	18 Team 1 (T1) (N = 10) Team 2 (T2) (N = 8)	Elite	Male	T1: 21.60 ± 1.07 # T2: 21.50 ± 1.69 #	T1: 195 ± 0.02 # T2: 195 ± 0.03 #	T1: 90.79 ± 3.73 # T2: 93.56 ± 3.34 #
He et al. 2010 [25]	8	Sub-Elite Collegiate	Male	20.5 ± 0.3 #	176.6 ± 2.0 #	75.1 ± 3.9 #
Moreira et al. 2011 [40]	15	Elite	Male	19 ± 0.6	192 ± 10	92 ± 9
Nunes et al. 2011(a) [15]	12	Elite	Female	26.2 ± 3.9	183.1 ± 9.8	82.2 ± 13.1
Nunes et al. 2014 [18]	19	Elite	Female	26 ± 5	181.8 ± 7.2	75.6 ± 12.6
Miloski et al. 2015 [36]	16 (23)	Brazilian state youth	Male	15.3 ± 0.7*	186.1 ± 8.9*	82.4 ± 14.6*
Azarbayjani et al. 2011 [21]	20	Amateur	Male	24.4 ± 3.6	184 ± 10	83.5 ± 3.6
Moraes et al. 2017 [22]	23	Brazilian state youth	Male	15.8 ± 0.8	n/a	82.7 ± 13.0
Moreira et al. 2008 [42]	10Basketball players (B) (N = 5) Coaching staff (C) (N = 5)	Elite	Male	B: 23 ± 2 C: 40 ± 6	B: 206 ± 4 C: 177 ± 5	B: 116 ± 11 C: 83 ± 7
Short-term effect of basketball training periods on salivary marker levels
Moreira et al. 2018 [19]	32 [48] U14 (N = 14) U15 (N = 10) U16 (N = 8)	Elite	Male	15.2 ± 1.2	180 ± 11	72 ± 15
Nunes et al. 2011(b) [41]	14	Elite	Female	26.2 ± 3.9	183.1 ± 9.8	74.5 ± 10.1
Sansone et al. 2018 [16]	12	Sub-Elite	Male	21 ± 2	193.9 ± 7.0	84.8 ± 6.6

Note: n/a – not provided;

^*– average data reported for initial sample size; SD – standard deviation.

^#– data reported as mean ± SEM (standard error of the mean).