EHS 480 - Clinical Exercise Physiology

3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once

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 studied 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.

Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: EHS 380 or EHS 385

Exercise and health science students only

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