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- Published on: 11 October 2022
- Published on: 11 October 2022
- Published on: 11 October 2022Re: Separating fatness from lack of fitness - authors replyShow More
Dear Editor,
The use of absolute versus weight standardized maximal oxygen consumption during fitness testing has been debated, especially in the context of intervention trials that may induce weight change. We recently showed that exercise training-related changes in exercise systolic blood pressure (SBP) were independently predicted by changes in fatness (by waist circumference) and fitness (by VO2...
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None declared. - Published on: 11 October 2022Separating fatness from lack of fitnessShow More
Dear Editor
In many practical situations such as the treatment of hypertension, it is important to determine whether an improvement of condition following exercise prescription is due to an increase in aerobic fitness, or whether it simply reflects a reduction in body fat content.[1] A previous review of 61 studies of training-induced changes in resting blood pressure[2] concluded that any reduction in resting pressures...
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