Exercise physiology of cardiovascular system

Integrated cardiovascular physiology: a laboratory exercise.

Examining the hemodynamic responses to exercise provides a unique opportunity to analyze and integrate cardiovascular physiology because more is learned about how a system operates when it is forced to perform than when it is idle. We designed a laboratory exercise that examines the cardiovascular responses to exercise in a sedentary individual, an athlete, an individual with quadriplegia, and ...

Prevalence of Students’ Misconceptions in Cardiovascular Physiology, and the Role of Taking Physiology Courses

Introduction: The cases of misconceptions are intellectual models of phenomena that are different from accepted scientific models of the same phenomena. The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of cardiovascular misconceptions among students, and evaluate the role of cardiovascular physiology courses in eliminating them. Methods: This descriptive study was performed on 348 u...

Developmental physiology of the cardiovascular system.

THE TRANSITION FROM THE FETAL circulation to isolated extrauterine life marks the most dramatic challenge to an individual’s cardiovascular system. Even though the fundamental peculiarities of the fetal circulation have been discovered in the 19th century already, many mechanisms playing important roles in the lategestational and perinatal fetal circulation remain poorly understood. This is ref...

Exercise and the Cardiovascular System

There are alarming increases in the incidence of obesity, insulin resistance, type II diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. The risk of these diseases is significantly reduced by appropriate lifestyle modifications such as increased physical activity. However, the exact mechanisms by which exercise influences the development and progression of cardiovascular disease are unclear. In this paper w...

Cardiovascular Response to Exercise and Training - Proceedings of International Conference on Equine Exercise Physiology - Fontainebleau, 2006