PURPOSE Prednisolone has been widely used due to its relatively short pituitary inhibition and its moderate potency. Exercise is one of the non-pharmacological interventions for glucocorticoid- induced osteoporosis prevention. However, the effects of exercise on the pharmacokinetics of prednisolone were unclear. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of sub-maximal exercise on th...

Objective: This study investigated the relationship between executive function and prefrontal cortex oxygenation during exercise in young adults with different Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) levels. Methods: A total of 28 amateur runners ( n = 14) sedentary college students were recruited. The maximum oxygen uptake estimated for sub-maximal intensity run (4.97 miles/h) was used to indicate CRF...

The effect of resistance exercise on blood lipids is not clear yet. The purpose of this study was to examine the cholesterol responses to a heavy resistance leg press exercise emphasizing on the eccentric movement 24 and 48 hours following exercise and to quantify the cardiorespiratory responses of the exercise bout in an attempt to clarify the exercise characteristics that may be responsible f...

Objective: Removal of accessory fibres coming from the sub-stellar thoracic chain to the heart during infra-stellate surgical upper thoracic sympathectomy (ISS) may be responsible for a decreased heart rate to workload relationship during exercise following surgery. We hypothesised that heart rate would decrease not only following right ISS. Methods: We performed repeated bicycle incremental ex...

Seventy-six thallium-201 myocardial perfusion studies were performed on twenty-five patients to assess their reproducibility and the effect ofvarying the level of exercise on the results of imaging. Each patient had a thallium-201 study at rest. Fourteen patients had studies on two occasions at maximum exercise, and twelve patients had studies both at light and at maximum exercise. Of 70 segmen...

STUDY DESIGN Randomized Clinical Trial. INTRODUCTION Hand exercises have been recommended as treatment for hand osteoarthritis (OA) but research evidence is sparse. PURPOSE OF THE STUDY To investigate effects of daily 16-week home-based hand exercise among persons with hand OA. METHODS Forty-six older adults completed a crossover trial with washout between exercise and sham treatments. Th...

INTRODUCTION Occurrence of dynamic hyperinflation during upper-limbs exercises in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients it is not well established. We hypothesized that dynamic hyperinflation and thoracoabdominal asynchrony occurs in COPD patients accomplishing arms exercises. We assessed the occurrence and association of dynamic hyperinflation and thoracoabdominal asynchrony in...

The exercise-induced increase and post-exercise decrease of plasma hyaluronan concentration were studied in human subjects. Six well trained men performed incremental exercise until exhaustion (MAX), intensive (submaximal, SUB) and extensive exercise (moderate, MOD) on a bicycle ergometer, defined as work at 100, 77 and 50% of maximal oxygen consumption. Hyaluronan was analyzed using a high-sen...