A new study in the European Respiratory Journal focuses on proper interpretation values for the measured VO2max in elderly patients. This study stresses the importance of the selection of VO2max reference equations, especially for older subjects, and offers clinicians some information to guide their choice. As a matter of fact, predicted VO2max values for older people may vary significantly according...

The utility of graded exercise tests, cardiopulmonary exercise tests, submaximal walking tests, and other functional assessments (strength, frailty) for Cardiac Rehabilitation have been reviewed in this article of the Journal of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention. This review addresses the role and optimal use of exercise testing in contemporary Cardiac Rehabilitation and discusses the merits...

The findings of a 12-year research period on elite football professional athletes were published in the Italian journal "Sport Sciences for Health". The aim of the research, conducted by the team of Italian sport scientist Danilo Manari, was to study the relations of maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) and oxygen consumption at anaerobic threshold (VO2AT) with the field role of elite soccer players. The...

A new study was published in the American Journal of Medical Sciences highlighting the importance of a submaximal exercise parameter, the OUES, to identify exercise capacity of pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) patients. The objective of this article was to study the oxygen uptake efficiency, an index of cardiopulmonary functional reserve that can be based upon a submaximal exercise effort, in PE...