Analyzing Cardiovascular Function During Exercise: Insights into Physiological Mechanisms of Cardiovascular Response to Exercise and Mechanisms Mediating the Benefits of Exercise

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Damien Vitiello

Institute of Sport Sciences and Health of Paris (I3SP), School of Sport Sciences of the université de Paris

Dr. Damien Vitiello is an associate professor at the School of Sports Sciences of the Université de Paris. He did his PhD at the LAPEC lab at the University of Avignon, France, in cardiac fatigue in humans and animals. He has also completed two postdoctoral fellowships: one at the Montreal Heart Institute (MHI) in Montreal, Canada, and the other at the Haute Ecole de Santé Vaud (HESAV) in Lausanne, Switzerland. During these three years, Dr. Vitiello has worked on cardiac rejection, immunology, exercise, hypoxia, training, and stroke-related projects. He is determined to explore pathophysiological mechanisms leading to cardiovascular diseases; and physiological mechanisms leading to improved cardiovascular physiology. He hopes to develop novel non-drug therapies (i.e., adapted physical activities programs) and training plans (e.g., hypoxia) to treat and prevent chronic diseases and enhance an athletes’ performance. His global ambition is to improve people’s health.

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Studies performed in humans and animals using exercise have yielded many insights into cardiovascular physiology and mechanisms by which the heart, the myocardium, and the vessels respond to exercise stress. One of the clinical interests of measuring cardiovascular function during exercise is to find slight dysfunctions unable to see during routine exams at rest. Another interest in measuring cardiovascular function during exercise is to understand better how the heart, the myocardium, and the vessels adapt in response to stress. To maximize the reliability of future studies using exercise, it is important to provide standardized methods allowing the measurement of cardiovascular function during exercise and to provide standardized exercise protocols.

In this context, it will be possible to understand better how the heart, the myocardium, and the vessels can benefit from physiological stress like exercise. Hence, this may provide a perspective for new therapeutic approaches for treating cardiovascular diseases based on adapted physical activity.