Music Tempo: A Tool for Regulating Walking Cadence and Physical Activity Intensity in Overweight Adults?

This study investigated if music tempo can prompt a desired walking cadence, and if music can provide a stimulus to regulate physical activity intensity in a longitudinal physical activity intervention with free-living adults. Overweight adults ( = 37; 94.26 ± 17.

Lipoprotein subfraction oxidation in acute exercise and ageing.

Exercise and ageing can independently increase free radical production that may enhance the susceptibility of LDL to oxidation and create a more atherogenic LDL particle. This investigation was designed to examine exercise and ageing on the susceptibility of LDL subfractions to oxidation. Eleven aged (55 ± 4 years) and twelve young (21 ± 2 years) participants completed a progressive exercise test to exhaustion and within one week performed a 1 h bout of moderate intensity (65% VO(2max)) exercise.

Exercise training protects the LDL I subfraction from oxidation susceptibility in an aged human population.

Background: Exercise training is considered an effective strategy to improve metabolic disease. Despite this, less is known regarding exercise training in the prevention and susceptibility of LDL subfraction oxidation, particularly in an aged population.

Methods: Eleven aged (55 ± 4 yrs) and twelve young (21 ± 2 yrs) participants were randomly separated into an experimental or control group as follows: young exercise (n = 6); young control (n = 6); aged exercise (n = 6) and aged control (n = 5).

A comparison of cardiac computerized tomography and exercise stress electrocardiogram test for the investigation of stable chest pain: the clinical results of the CAPP randomized prospective trial.

Aims: To determine the symptomatic and prognostic differences resulting from a novel diagnostic pathway based on cardiac computerized tomography (CT) compared with the traditional exercise stress electrocardiography test (EST) in stable chest pain patients.

Methods And Results: A prospective randomized controlled trial compared selected patient outcomes in EST and cardiac CT coronary angiography groups. Five hundred patients with troponin-negative stable chest pain and without known coronary artery disease were recruited.

A comparison of Diamond Forrester and coronary calcium scores as gatekeepers for investigations of stable chest pain.

To determine if calcium scores (CS) could act as a more effective gatekeeper than Diamond Forrester (DF) in the assessment of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD). A sub-study of the Cardiac CT for the Assessment of Chest Pain and Plaque (CAPP) study, a randomised control trial evaluating the cost-effectiveness of cardiac CT in symptomatic patients with stable chest pain. Stable pain was defined as troponin negative pain without symptoms of unstable angina.