A paper published in the British Medical Journal introduces purposes and methodology of a new clinical trial on gait inefficiencies on cerebral palsy adolescents that will be using COSMED wearable metabolic technology. A multicentre randomised controlled trial with a parallel process evaluation is going to be sponsored by Burnel University London…

A new study determines, using ADP as a validation method, whether any of the anthropometric indices used historically or currently accurately predict body composition in infants. Body composition is a key metric for assessing nutrition in preterm infants. In many neonatal intensive care units body composition is estimated using anthropometric ind…

A new study in the European Respiratory Journal focuses on proper interpretation values for the measured VO2max in elderly patients. This study stresses the importance of the selection of VO2max reference equations, especially for older subjects, and offers clinicians some information to guide their choice. As a matter of fact, predicted VO2max v…

A new paper published on Chest Journal investigated the role of Single Breath Nitrogen Washout (N2WO) as a marker to evaluate small airway disease in COPD patients. Given that current functional assessments do not allow a reliable assessment of small airways, One of the major causes of disease in COPD comes from small airways, which could not be…

The reliability of predictive equations versus indirect calorimetry in kidney injury patients has been assessed in this paper published in Annals of Nutrition and Metabolism Journal. There are multiple equations for predicting resting energy expenditure (REE), whose accuracy in severe acute kidney injury (AKI) patients has been examined in this s…

The utility of graded exercise tests, cardiopulmonary exercise tests, submaximal walking tests, and other functional assessments (strength, frailty) for Cardiac Rehabilitation have been reviewed in this article of the Journal of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Prevention. This review addresses the role and optimal use of exercise testing in contempora…

The findings of a 12-year research period on elite football professional athletes were published in the Italian journal "Sport Sciences for Health". The aim of the research, conducted by the team of Italian sport scientist Danilo Manari, was to study the relations of maximal oxygen consumption (VO2max) and oxygen consumption at anaerobic threshol…

A new study was published in the American Journal of Medical Sciences highlighting the importance of a submaximal exercise parameter, the OUES, to identify exercise capacity of pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) patients. The objective of this article was to study the oxygen uptake efficiency, an index of cardiopulmonary functional reserve that can b…

A new paper tested how acceptable can be among spinal cord injury patients to undertake an indirect calorimetry test with canopy hood. In the absence of reliable predictive equations, indirect calorimetry (IC) remains the gold standard for assessing energy requirements after spinal cord injury (SCI), but it is typically confined to a research set…

The ECSS Journal (EJSS, European Journal of Sport Science) published a new article examining the best methods to measure body composition on paralympic athletes. The study objectives were to describe the body composition of participants in three distinct Paralympic sports and to compare the values of body density and estimated body fat obtained f…

The Mayo Clinic Procedures Journal hosts an article describing the project to create a registry of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) reference values. Given the importance of CRF in estimating health risk, it is essential to have accurate reference values to know what constitutes a “normal” value. In 2014, a multi-institutional initiative, the Fitn…

A new cross-sectional secondary analysis was published in the Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (JPEN) focusing on issue related to the indirect calorimetry test in hemodialysis patients. Indirect calorimetry requires a steady state (SS) protocol to determine measured resting energy expenditure (mREE). Achieving stringent criteria for a…

A new review study has been published in the Journal of Sports Medicine and Physical Fitness discussing the validity, reliability and principles of operations of existing portable open-circuit spirometry system. Portable open-circuit spirometry systems are widely used in the field of exercise physiology, especially in field settings when freedom…

A new study on the International Journal of Pediatrics and Child Health examines the association between early infant feeding and childhood adiposity. The objective for this study was to assess the relationship between infant feeding (exclusive breastfeeding, mixed feeding and exclusive formula feeding) and childhood adiposity among pre-school ch…

A new study on the Nutrition Clinical Practice Journal demonstrates that the assessment of energy expenditure in cystic fibrosis patients requires indirect calorimetry and cannot be predicted by equations. Resting energy expenditure (REE) is increased in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) with end-stage lung disease due to chronic inflammation an…

This scientific statement is a focused update to the 2012 Joint Scientific Statement on Clinical Recommendations for Cardiopulmonary Exercise (CPX) Testing Data Assessment in Specific Patient Populations from the European Association for Cardiovascular Prevention & Rehabilitation (EACPR) and the American Heart Association (AHA). The purposes…

A new review paper on the Respiratory Medicine Journal confirms the impact of small airways dysfunction and inflammation in adult patients with asthma. This systematic literature review analyzes the prevalence of small airways disease (SAD) in adult patients with asthma, and to ascertain how SAD prevalence compares between different studies when…

The limited accuracy of currently in use predictive equations for Resting Metabolic rate (RMR) was assessed in a new study on the FASEB Journal. The objective of the present study was to test the validity of established (Harris-Benedict, WHO, Mifflin-St. Jeor) and contemporary (3 meta equations of Sabounchi and colleagues, 1 equation of Nelson an…

This recent paper published on the Polish Pneumology and Allergology Journal provides a clear and useful overview of the importance and the different measurement methods for airway resistance. This paper illustrates characteristics, clinical utility and limitations of main three methods of airway resistance — plethysmography, FOT and the interrup…