The Effect of Body Mass Index on Acute Cardiometabolic Responses to Graded Exercise Testing in Children: A Narrative Review

• Main Authors: Pantelis T. Nikolaidis (Author), Eleni Kintziou (Author), Georgios Georgoudis (Author), José Afonso (Author), Rodrigo L. Vancini (Author), Beat Knechtle (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2018-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Although the beneficial role of exercise for health is widely recognized, it is not clear to what extent the acute physiological responses (e.g., heart rate (HR) and oxygen uptake (VO2)) to a graded exercise test are influenced by nutritional status (i.e., overweight vs. normal-weight). Therefore, t...