Impact of Yoga on Global Cardiovascular Risk as an Add-On to a Regular Exercise Regimen in Patients With Hypertension.

Background: We aimed to determine whether the addition of yoga to a regular exercise training regimen improves cardiometabolic risk profile.

Methods: Sixty individuals with diagnosed hypertension (≥ 140/90 mm Hg for 3 measurements on different days) were recruited in an exercise training program. In addition to aerobic exercise training, participants were randomised into either a yoga or a stretching control group.

Fenofibrate Downregulates NF-κB Signaling to Inhibit Pro-inflammatory Cytokine Secretion in Human THP-1 Macrophages and During Primary Biliary Cholangitis.

Chronic liver diseases, e.g., cholestasis, are negatively impacted by inflammation, which further aggravates liver injury.

Heart rate variability after bariatric surgery: The add-on value of exercise.

Purpose: To assess the impact of bariatric surgery and an added supervised exercise training programme on heart rate variability (HRV) in patients with severe obesity.

Methods: Fifty-nine patients who underwent bariatric surgery were randomised in the post-operative period to a 12-week supervised exercise training programme (moderate intensity combination aerobic/resistance exercise training programme) or a control group. Indices of HRV including time-domain, spectral-domain, and nonlinear parameters were measured preoperatively, and at 3, 6, and 12 months.

Effect of bariatric surgery on blood pressure response to exercise in a severely obese population.

Background: Exaggerated blood pressure response to exercise is a cardiovascular risk factor associated to higher morbidity and mortality. Severely obese patients have an increased risk of exercise-induced hypertension (EIH). We aimed to assess the blood pressure response to exercise in patients with severe obesity who underwent bariatric surgery as well as the main determinants of this response.