The potential benefits of assessing post-cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) in aging: a narrative review.

BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil

Healthy Longevity Translational Research Program, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore (NUS), Queenstown, Singapore.

Published: May 2023

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) is an important tool to measure the cardiopulmonary fitness of an individual and has been widely used in athletic, clinical and research settings. Most CPET focus on analyzing physiological responses during exercise. We contend that the post-CPET recovery physiological responses offer further diagnostic and prognostic information about the health of the cardiopulmonary and metabolic systems, especially when testing apparently healthy middle-aged and older adults. However, there are limited studies that investigate physiological responses during the post-CPET recovery, and even less so in middle-aged and older adults. Therefore, this current review is aimed at discussing the contribution of post-CPET recovery parameters to cardiopulmonary health and their potential applications in aging populations. In addition to the existing methods, we propose to examine the aerobic and anaerobic recovery threshold post-CPET as novel potential diagnostic and/or prognostic tools.

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