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High-flow nasal cannula in adults with chronic respiratory diseases during physical exercise: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Abstract
Background Chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) affect at least 545 million people globally, leading to symptoms such as dyspnoea, fatigue and limited physical activity. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) programmes aim to improve the exercis...
Publication · July 05, 2026
Editorial: Tailored respiratory muscle training for athletes, patients, and vulnerable groups
Publication · July 05, 2026
Estimation of Heart Rate and Respiratory Rate from NIRS Signals in Athletes using Empirical Mode Decomposition and Continuous Wavelet Transform
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This study explores the estimation of heart rate (HR) and respiratory rate (RR) from near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) signals in elite athletes during incremental exercise. Signals from the prefrontal cortex and m. Intercostales region...
Publication · July 05, 2026
Randomized Trial Assessing Prospective Surveillance and Exercise for Preventing Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema in High-Risk Patients.
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OBJECTIVE
to evaluate if combining prospective surveillance model (PSM) with a supervised multimodal exercise program prevents breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL) and its impact on the functional capacity and quality of life (QoL) o...
Publication · July 05, 2026
Sex differences in the prefrontal cortex and muscle oxygenation during exercise until exhaustion in endurance-trained individuals.
Abstract
Biological sex influences exercise performance, largely owing to anatomical and physiological differences in brain areas involved in cognitive motor control and in respiratory and locomotor muscles related to workload. We used near-infr...
Publication · July 05, 2026
Galectin-3 plasma levels are associated with left atrial contractile function in long-distance runners.
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High-intensity endurance exercise induces myocardial remodelling as an adaptive response to sustained volume overload, but excessive cumulative training might also favour deleterious cardiac remodelling, including atrial fibrosis. Wheth...
Publication · July 05, 2026
The Effectiveness of NIRS-Based Wearable Devices in Estimating Physical Activity Intensity in Patients with Chronic Non-Communicable Diseases: A Structured Narrative Review.
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Background: Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS)-based wearable devices offer non-invasive, continuous monitoring of muscle oxygenation, providing direct microvascular and metabolic information that complements indirect indices of intensit...
Publication · July 05, 2026
Regional tissue oxygenation during high-intensity exercise following voluntary isocapnic hyperpnea versus inspiratory threshold loading in endurance–trained individuals: a randomized controlled trial
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This study contrasted the effects of five weeks of voluntary isocapnic hyperpnea (VIH) versus inspiratory threshold loading (ITL) on tissue oxygenation at the prefrontal cortex (PFC), respiratory muscles (m.Intercostales), and locomotor...
Publication · July 05, 2026