A recent study of the Italian Diabetes Exercise Study (IDES) showed how supervised exercise can produce significant improvements of cardiovascular risk among Type-2 diabetes patients. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of an intensive exercise intervention strategy in promoting physical activity and improving hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) level and other modifiable cardiovascular risk factors in...
A validation of Fitmate PRO by the University of Tennessee was published recently in the prestigious Journal of Strength and Conditioning. The main purpose of this study was to assess the validity of the Cosmed Fitmate for the prediction of maximal oxygen consumption through a submaximal exercise testing. Fitmate predicts VO2max based upon the linear regression between HR and measured VO2,...
COSMED's Fitmate has been validated against a “first principles” metabolic calibrator capable of delivering cyclic air flows of known tidal volume, frequency and gas makeup. “First principles” systems are advantageous in validation testing because their calibration is based solely on easily measured and verified quantities such as length and time (See: Gore CJ, Catcheside PG, French SN,...
COSMED's Quark CPET has been validated against a “first principles” metabolic calibrator capable of delivering cyclic air flows of known tidal volume, frequency and gas makeup. “First principles” systems are advantageous in validation testing because their calibration is based solely on easily measured and verified quantities such as length and time (See: Gore CJ, Catcheside PG, French SN,...
This study aimed to evaluate the agreement between the Q-NRG device in canopy mode and the Deltatrac II, which has long been considered the Gold Standard for Indirect Calorimetry in clinical practice, while its production has ceased. Sixty-one healthy volunteers underwent two consecutive assessments using both the Q-NRG and Deltatrac II in random order, under standardized conditions,...
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