Respiratory responses during exercise were observed to determine whether improvement of oxygen availability in working skeletal muscle is attributable to increased aerobic capacity after administration of nitrate in patients with effort angina. After isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) administration, the aerobic capacity increased 3.3 ml/min/Kg (20%) as compared with the control test (p less than 0.00...

In humans, the strong statistical association between fitness and survival suggests a link between impaired oxygen metabolism and disease. We hypothesized that artificial selection of rats based on low and high intrinsic exercise capacity would yield models that also contrast for disease risk. After 11 generations, rats with low aerobic capacity scored high on cardiovascular risk factors that c...

THYFAULT, J.P. and E.M. MORRIS. Intrinsic (genetic) aerobic fitness impacts susceptibility for metabolic disease. Exerc. Sport Sci. Rev., Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 7–15, 2017. Low-capacity runner (LCR) and high-capacity runner (HCR) rat strains are divergent for running capacity and aerobic fitness. The LCR rats are susceptible to obesity, insulin resistance, and fatty liver whereas the HCR are prote...

OBJECTIVE To systematically evaluate the level of evidence of the clinimetric properties of measures of aerobic and anaerobic capacity used for children with cerebral palsy (CP). DATA SOURCES A systematic search of databases PubMed, Embase, SPORTDiscus, and PsycINFO through April 2011 was performed. STUDY SELECTION Two independent raters identified and examined studies that reported laborat...

background maximal oxygen consumption (vo2max) forced vital capacity(fvc), forced expiratory volume(fev1) and maximum voluntary ventilation(mvv) are important indicators of pulmonary functions that show physical health and physical activity of individuals. the aim of the present study was to examine the effects of yoga and aerobic trainings on pulmonary functions parameters in untrained women. ...