Background Guidelines recommend exercise for cardiovascular health, although evidence
from trials linking exercise to cardiovascular health through intermediate biomarkers …

Summary Exercise training ('exercise') and hypocaloric diet ('diet') are frequently prescribed
for weight loss in obesity. Whilst body weight changes are commonly used to evaluate …

Importance More than 80% of patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
(HFPEF), the most common form of heart failure among older persons, are overweight or …

The purpose of this Position Stand is to provide guidance to professionals who counsel and
prescribe individualized exercise to apparently healthy adults of all ages. These …

The retirement phase is an opportunity to integrate healthy (nutrition/exercise) habits into
daily life. We conducted this systematic review to assess which nutrition and exercise …

Aerobic exercise intensity prescription is a key issue in cardiac rehabilitation, being directly
linked to both the amount of improvement in exercise capacity and the risk of adverse events …

Physical activity and exercise are key components of energy expenditure and therefore of
energy balance. Changes in energy balance alter fat mass. It is therefore reasonable to ask …

Objective To conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised control trials that
examined the effect of walking on risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Methods Four …

It is increasingly recognized that the location of excess adiposity, particularly increased
deposition of visceral adipose tissue (VAT), is important when determining the adverse …

Recommendations for obesity treatment should distinguish the metabolically 'healthy'from
'unhealthy'obese phenotype to identify early the obese person who will benefit the most from …