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Nicholas Evanoff, MS, doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology and member of the the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP), is the lead author of an article, “Assessing vascular characteristics of the fetal descending aorta: a feasibility study,” in the Journal of Clinical Ultrasound. The publication analyzes the feasibility measuring vascular characteristics of the descending abdominal aorta […]

Christiana Raymond-Pope, PhD, postdoctoral fellow in the School of Kinesiology’s Skeletal Muscle Plasticity and Regeneration Laboratory, is the lead author of the article, “Total and regional body composition of NCAA division I collegiate basketball athletes,” in the International Journal of Sports Medicine. This study examines body composition using dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in 210 male and female […]

Nick Evanoff, MS, doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology, is the lead author of an article, “Reproducibility of a ramping protocol to measure cerebral vascular reactivity using functional magnetic resonance imaging,” in the Journal of Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging. The publication examines the reproducibility of a new method to evaluate function in brain […]

CONCLUSIONS: Increased carotid elasticity in Morquio A patients is an unexpected contrast to the reduced elasticity observed in other MPS. These Morquio A cIMT findings corroborate MPS IVA arterial post-mortem reports and are consistent with cIMT of other MPS. Aortic root dilatation in Morquio A indicates arterial elastin dysfunction, but their carotid hyperelasticity indicates other vascular intima/media components, such as proteoglycans, may also influence artery function. Studying MPS I and...

Donald R. Dengel, PhD, exercise physiology professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP), recently published an article, “Abnormally increased carotid intima media-thickness and elasticity in patients with Morquio A disease,” in the Journal Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases. Generally, cardiovascular anatomy and dysfunction is not well described in Morquio […]

Dr. Donald Dengel, exercise physiology professor in the School of Kinesiology, is a co-investigator on a grant funded by the National Institutes of Health, and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. The 4-year grant, “Prolonged Daily Fasting As A Viable Alternative to Caloric Restriction In At-Risk Obese Humans,” examines the role […]

Research describing fetal arterial structure and function is lacking within the literature. This study's purpose was to measure intima-media thickness (IMT), compliance and distensibility of 24- to 25-week fetuses' abdominal aortas using conventional ultrasonography from 16 diabetic (DM) and 25 non-diabetic mothers (NDM). We found no significant differences in fetal abdominal aorta IMT (P = .68), diameter distensibility (P = .22), or cross-sectional distensibility (P = .23). However, both fetal...

Maddy Czeck, graduate student in the School of Kinesiology and member of the Laboratory of Integrative Physiology (LIHP), is the lead author of the publication, “Body fat percent assessment between electrical impedance myography and dual X-ray absorptiometry,” which is published in the American Journal of Human Biology. The article examines a handheld method, electrical impedance myography […]

Donald Dengel, PhD, professor of exercise physiology in the School of Kinesiology, is quoted in an article titled “How Much of Your Body Mass Is Actually Muscle — and How Do You Measure It?” recently published on Livestrong.com. The article touches on the importance of measuring body mass and what that means to an average […]

Though individual differences in arterial carbon dioxide and oxygen levels inherently exist, the degree of their influence on cerebral vascular reactivity (CVR) is less clear. We examined the reproducibility of BOLD signal changes to an iso-oxic ramping P(et) CO(2) protocol. CVR changes were induced by altering P(et) CO(2) while holding P(et) O(2) constant using a computer-controlled sequential gas delivery (SGD) device. Two MRI scans, each including a linear change in P(et) CO(2) , were...

Michelle Harbin, MS doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology and member of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, was cited in a Daily News article, “Research Brief: Examining secondhand smoke and cardiovascular risks in children.” Harbin’s research examines how secondhand smoke negatively impacts adolescent health, such as an increase in abdominal aorta stiffness.

This study aimed to examine body composition using dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) in male and female NCAA Division I collegiate basketball athletes. Two-hundred ten (male [M]/female [F]=88/122) basketball athletes' total and regional fat mass, lean mass, bone mineral density, and visceral adipose tissue were measured. Athletes were classified as: point guards (M/F=27/34), shooting guards (M/F=18/27), small forwards (M/F=13/18), power forwards (M/F=21/27), and centers (M/F=9/16). ANOVA and...

Donald R. Dengel, Ph.D., is a co-author of a recently published article “Reaching the tipping point: identification of thresholds at which may steeply increase in youth.” The related study identified sex-specific body fat thresholds at which visceral adipose tissue levels appear to steeply increase in children and adolescents.  Visceral adipose tissue is fat tissue located […]

Donald R. Dengel, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP), is awarded an annual grant of $300,000 from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. The grant funds Dr. Dengel’s research studies on diabetes, and how the disease impacts an individual’s overall health and wellness. Co-Investigators of the project […]

On December 7, 2019, Donald R. Dengel, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, presented at the 2019 Track Football Consortium at Elmhurst College in Elmhurst, Illinois. The title of Dr. Dengel’s talk was “Next Generation Body Composition Analytics.”

School of Kinesiology professor Donald R. Dengel, Ph.D., director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, presented at the 2019 Sports Biometrics Conference in San Francisco, California on December 5, 2019. Dengel spoke on “Muscle Mass And Muscle Function: More Mass Doesn’t Mean Better Function.” The Sports Biometrics Conference focuses on specific applications of big […]

Michelle Harbin, MS doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology, recently published new research on secondhand smoke impacts on children and adolescents’ cardiovascular health. Harbin and colleagues studied the carotid artery in the neck brachial artery in the upper arm and abdominal aorta right above the belly button in 298 nonsmoking youth, ranging from 8 […]

CONCLUSIONS: The thresholds should be confirmed in longitudinal studies, and they may be useful in identifying youth at increased cardiometabolic risk in need of close clinical monitoring and/or intensive intervention to reduce excess adiposity.

CONCLUSIONS: SHS was associated with abdominal aorta stiffness; the majority of vascular measures within the brachial and carotid artery remained unaffected following adjustment for covariates, including hypertension and adiposity. SHS may predispose individuals to increased abdominal aorta stiffness, an artery previously reported to exhibit increased susceptibility to atherosclerosis.

CONCLUSIONS: This study's observations suggest that, EIM may be an accurate field method for measuring total BF%, but not regional BF%.