The importance of measuring ventilation during the Six Minute Walk test in COPD patients has been confirmed in a study presented during the European Respiratory Society Congress in 2015 and published in the European Respiratory Journal. The study, performed at Ryazan Medical University (Russian Federation), focuses on the fact that low toleranc...

A new study covering both laboratory and field test assessments, published International Journal of Sports Physiology and Performance, investigates on the maximal aerobic power of elite Stand-up paddle boarding (SUP) athletes. 10 internationally and nationally ranked elite SUP athletes were assessed in a laboratory and compared with other water...

The role of predicitve equations versus indirect calorimetry in patients treated for bipolar disorder has been investigated in this study published on the Official Journal of the Italian Society of Psychopathology. The purpose of this study was to compare predictive formulae (Harris-Benedict, Mifflin-St. Jeor and LARN) commonly used to calculat...

A new study published on the Proceedings of the Nutrition Society focuses on energy expenditure after spinal cord injury (SCI) and how commonly used predictive equations tend to overestimate resting metabolic rate (RMR) by 5–32 %. The objective of this study was to measure RMR (m-RMR) with an indirect calorimeter (Quark RMR) and then compare th...

Respiratory Research Journal published a study on the importance of Airway resistance (RAW) and specific airway conductance (sGAW) measurements through body plethysmography. This study, based on 975 patients tested, investigated the contribution of RAW and sGAW to a diagnosis of obstructive airways disease and their role in differentiating asth...

A systematic review of studies of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in stroke survivors has been published on the Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. The aim of the present study was to systematically review the use of CPET in people who have survived a stroke, whether used for diagnostic purposes or to assess functional capacity. The following ...

The importance of measuring and not estimating Resting Energy Expenditure has been confirmed also for critically ill cardiac patients in a pilot trial published on Heart Lung Vessel Journal. The aim of present pilot trial was to evaluate the actual resting energy expenditures (REE) among haemodynamically compromised cardiac patients. The study...

A new European Respiratory Society (ERS) Statement has been published in ERJ reviewing the role exercise tests have in patients with chronic respiratory diseases. The review covered studies that report the evaluation or use of the incremental (or ramp) exercise test (IET), the constant work-rate exercise test (CWRET), the 6-min walk test (6MWT)...

A new study on Critical Care Journal describes international nutrition support practices in critically ill head-injured patients. Given that critical illness following head injury is associated with a hypermetabolic state, the study major finding was that nutritional deficits are commonplace and these deficits are associated with a delay to dis...

Clinical recommendations on the importance of Cardio Pulmonary Exercise Testing in Pulmonary Hypertension patients were published on the Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine. There is an increasing recognition of the potential value of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH). Several CPX variables ha...

This study published in the Journal of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, investigates metabolic changes and nutritional needs during the postsurgical anabolic phase in infants. This analysis explores the associations of resting energy expenditure (REE) and macronutrient utilization with body composition of full-term infants, during catch-up growth a...

New study has been published investigating the importance of neonatal body composition as it can influence the development of obesity during childhood and beyond. The aim of the study was to demostrate that fetal growth and maternal factors might influence neonatal fat mass percentage (FM%), independent of birth weight. 194 healthy neonates we...

A new study has been published in the Turkish Thoracic Journal reviewing the available techniques for the measurement of lung function in preschool children. This study focuses on two different techniques that can be used in clinical practice, such as the interrupter technique and the forced oscillation technique. For both techniques, normal va...

A new poster was presented during the 2015 ERS Conference and then published in the European Respiratory Journal, highlighting the importance of ventilatory analysis during the Six Minute Walk Test (6MWT) in COPD patients. The aim of the study was to investigate the respiratory responses during 6MWT in untrained COPD patients. Exercise performa...

A new study on the European Respiratory Journal highlights the utility to add FOT testing to spirometry in subjects following toxic inhalation (for example the 9/11 World Trade Center disaster in 2001). Although many community members developed respiratory symptoms after World Trade Center destruction in 2001, screening spirometry was usually n...

The role of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) to provide a comprehensive assessment of exercise tolerance and responses in multiple sclerosis patients has been examined in a study on the Sports Medicine Journal. The objective of this study was to provide a comprehensive examination of outcome variables from CPET among persons with MS and ...

The importance of measuring Resting Energy Expenditure through Indirect calorimetry has been examined and confirmed in a study published on the ASPEN Nutrition in Clinical Practice Journal. Critically ill patients often require nutrition support, but accurately determining energy needs in these patients is difficult. Energy expenditure is affec...

The role of race in infant body composition has been investigated in a study published in the Pediatric Obesity journal. This study aimed to assess whether ethnic differences in body fat are present at birth in healthy infants born at term, where body fat is measured using air displacement plethysmography (PEA POD) and fat distribution by skin-...

A study from the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation & Prevention analyses the reliability of gas exchange variables derived from CPET. Gas exchange variables derived from cardiopulmonary exercise tests (CPETs) need to be reliable for evaluating interventions and clinical decision making. Whereas peak oxygen uptake (VO2) has shown to ...

The updated Guidelines by Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) and American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.) were published in beginning of 2016 on the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition. This particular report is an update and expansion of guidelines published by A.S.P.E.N. and SCCM in 2009. The intended u...