Publications by authors named "Carolyn VanAtta"
Article Synopsis
- Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is crucial for health and was studied in athlete patients during the COVID-19 pandemic to see how lifestyle changes affected it.
- The research involved adult athletes who had their CRF measured before the pandemic and assessed their perceived changes through an electronic survey.
- Results showed that most participants felt they either maintained or improved their CRF during the pandemic, with those reporting improvements also engaging in higher levels of moderate physical activity.
Purpose: Although exercise testing guidelines define cutoffs for an exaggerated exercise systolic blood pressure (SBP) response, SBPs above these cutoffs are not uncommon in athletes given their high exercise capacity. Alternately, guidelines also specify a normal SBP response that accounts for metabolic equivalents (METs; mean [SD] of 10 [2] mm Hg per MET or 3.5 mL/kg/min oxygen consumption [V˙o]).
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