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Physiology Friday #261: Combining High-intensity Training with Frequent Activity Breaks Maximizes Cardiovascular Benefits

Physiologically Speaking

Welcome to the Physiology Friday newsletter. Physiologically Speaking is a reader-supported publication. So even if you don’t get fitter or faster, implementing frequent activity breaks into your day might just improve your quality of life and work. That aligns with the participants’ responses in this study.

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Cancer therapy–related salivary dysfunction

Journal of Clinical Investigation - Cardiology

Consequently, changes in salivary function can profoundly impair quality of life for cancer patients. We discuss salivary gland anatomy and physiology to understand how anticancer therapies such as chemotherapy, bone marrow transplantation, immunotherapy, and radiation therapy impair salivary function.

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Skeletal Muscle Pathology in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension and Its Contribution to Exercise Intolerance

Journal of the American Heart Association

Pulmonary arterial hypertension is a disease of the pulmonary vasculature, resulting in elevated pressure in the pulmonary arteries and disrupting the physiological coordination between the right heart and the pulmonary circulation.

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The role of physiology in the contemporary management of coronary artery disease

Heart BMJ

Coronary physiology assessment, including epicardial and microvascular investigations, is a fundamental tool in the contemporary management of patients with coronary artery disease. In addition, the post-PCI physiological assessment aims to optimise the result revealing residual myocardial ischaemia.

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CorVascular’s VasoGuard Earns FDA 510(k) Clearance

DAIC

In these patients, limb symptoms may reduce quality of life, and the devastating outcome of limb amputation results in social and economic burdens for both patient and family. The VasoGuard V-Series signifies a significant step forward for physiologic testing in international standards compliance.

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Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test Interpretation Across the Lifespan in Congenital Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement From the American Heart Association

Journal of the American Heart Association

Because these patients are living longer, treatment and disease surveillance targets have shifted toward enhancing quality of life and functional status. Survivorship from congenital heart disease has improved rapidly secondary to advances in surgical and medical management.

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PO-04-041 PHYSIOLOGIC ACCELERATED PACING AS A TREATMENT FOR HEART FAILURE WITH PRESERVED EJECTION FRACTION

HeartRhythm

Introduction: The PACE HFpEF trial is a prospective, single-center, randomized multiple crossover study investigating the effects of pacing modality and accelerated pacing on quality of life, NT-proBNP, and functional capacity in patients with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction (HFpEF) without pacing indication.