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Exercise training increases levels of the anti-ageing Klotho protein: health-related cardiometabolic implications. The FIT-AGEING randomised controlled trial (PhD Academy Award)
  1. Francisco J Amaro-Gahete
  1. Department of Physiology, University of Granada, Granada 18016, Spain
  1. Correspondence to Francisco J Amaro-Gahete, Physiology, University of Granada, Granada 18016, Spain; amarof{at}ugr.es

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2020-102120

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    What did I do?

    The main aims of this PhD were (1) to study the association of the shed form of the α-Klotho gene (S-Klotho) with physical fitness, energy metabolism and cardiometabolic health, and (2) to study the effect of different exercise training programmes on S-Klotho, as well as on physical fitness, energy metabolism and cardiometabolic health in sedentary middle-aged adults.1

    Why did I do it?

    Since the discovery of the Klotho gene as a suppressor of several ageing phenotypes, numerous studies have focused on elucidating the molecular pathways that mediate the effects of its expression on cellular ageing–related processes.1 However, the role of the S-Klotho protein in different healthy ageing–related outcomes has not been deeply studied. Moreover, there is a biological base supporting the hypothesis that exercise training could induce an increment of S-Klotho, resulting in one of the still unrecognised physiological mechanisms that can explain the exercise benefits on the ageing process. …

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    • Contributors FJA-G contributed to the design and implementation of the research, to the analysis of the results and to the writing of the manuscript.

    • Funding The author of the current manuscript was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports (FPU14/04172).

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent for publication Not required.

    • Ethics approval Ethics Committee on Human Research of the Regional Government of Andalusia (0838-N-2017).

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.