Projects
Personalized Remotely Guided Preventive Exercise Therapy for a Healthy Heart - the PRIORITY project Ghent University
Innovation potential of PRIORITY project
The capacity to deliver a patient-centric, optimally dosed exercise
program which supports patients in adopting an active lifestyle in their
home-environment, but also allows for real in-person contacts with
their treating physiotherapist is a powerful and compelling approach to
sustainable healthcare. This type of hybrid exercise therapy model
combines the best of ...
Exercise epigenomics: microRNA as biomarker of exercise-induced cardiovascular adaptation. University of Antwerp
Exercise therapy for osteoarthritis pain: how does it work? Vrije Universiteit Brussel
A glitch in the matrix: characterization of the potential of ketone bodies to improve muscular and functional adaptations to exercise training in young and older adults KU Leuven
We recently indicated that increasing blood ketone levels, by ketone ester ingestion (KE), promotes muscular angiogenesis and net muscle anabolism during exercise training performed under catabolic conditions. In addition, we provided proof of concept for a beneficial role of KE in remodeling of the extracellular matrix (ECM), and in promoting post-exercise sleep, which are both central players in the adaptive response to exercise. Therefore, ...
Prevention of heart failure in type 2 diabetes by exercise intervention Ghent University
Cardiac dysfunction is highly prevalent in type 2 diabetes (T2DM), leading to adverse cardiac events and premature death. In the last few years the global longitudinal strain (GLS, which can be assessed during echocardiography) was found to predict this diabetes-induced heart failure (DIHF) years ahead in T2DM patients. We have now recently shown that GLS indeed is disturbed even in well-controlled and symptom-free T2DM patients: a disturbed ...
Prevention of heart failure in type 2 diabetes by exercise intervention KU Leuven
Cardiac dysfunction is highly prevalent in type 2 diabetes (T2DM), leading to adverse cardiac events and premature death. In the last few years the global longitudinal strain (GLS, which can be assessed during echocardiography) was found to predict this diabetes-induced heart failure (DIHF) years ahead in T2DM patients. We have now recently shown that GLS indeed is disturbed even in well-controlled and symptom-free T2DM patients: a disturbed ...
MicroRNA in heart failure: Exercise as a tool to discover candidate microRNA for therapy and personalized medicine. University of Antwerp
Pressure and volume registration of the right ventricle, during exercise, in patients with pulmonary hypertension. KU Leuven
The degree of RV dysfunction is an important determinant of mortality and exercise capacity in cardiopulmonary disease. Unfortunately, detection of RV dysfunction is most often delayed, when impairment is severe. Early detection could have important clinical implications for the management of these patients. Furthermore, demonstration of RV dysfunction during exercise might help explain symptoms such as exertional dyspnea or exercise ...