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Clinical Exercise Physiology

Course #: EHS 680, Class #: 2608, Section #: 01

Description

This course focuses on the role of exercise in managing several common chronic disease conditions. Risk reduction and the treatment of chronic conditions using exercise will be addressed. The chronic conditions studies in this course are endocrine and metabolic diseases (such as diabetes, metabolic syndrome and obesity) pulmonary diseases (such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and cardiovascular diseases (such as heart failure, cardiovascular disease, and peripheral artery disease). Graded exercise testing and prescription in clinical populations will be included.

Prerequisites

EHS 630

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