Recent Lab News

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.

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 […]

Donald R. Dengel, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, was recently invited to present at the 2019 National Lipid Association Fall Clinical Lipid Update in Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 14, 2019. The title of Dengel’s presentation was ”Increasing Physical Activity in Special Populations.”

Madeline Czeck, Kinesiology MS student, is the lead author on an article published in the International Journal of Sports Medicine. The article, “Total and regional body composition of NCAA division I collegiate female softball athletes,” examines body composition of 128 NCAA Division I female softball players using dual X-ray absorptiometry (DXA). Although no significant differences […]

Kara Marlatt, PhD, MPH., a 2015 graduate of the School of Kinesiology, is lead author on an article published in the Journal of Adolescent and Young Adult Oncology. “The effect of atorvastatin on vascular function and structure in young adult survivors of childhood cancer: a randomized, placebo-controlled pilot clinical trial,” examines the use of statins […]

Madeline Czeck, graduate student in the School of Kinesiology, is the lead author of the article, “Total and Regional Body Composition of NCAA Division I Collegiate Female Softball Athletes,” in the International Journal of Sports Medicine. The publication compared NCAA Division I female softball players’ throwing arm body composition to their non-throwing arm. Four major positions […]

An article co-authored by Donald R. Dengel, Ph.D., was picked up by the PedEndoGram, a monthly collection of the three most important publications in pediatric endocrinology compiled by the Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The PedEndoGram is distributed world-wide to pediatric endocrinologists and nurses. The article, “Use of an […]

Maddy Czeck, graduate student in the School of Kinesiology, is the lead author of the article, “Total and regional body composition of NCAA division I collegiate baseball athletes,” in the International Journal of Sports Medicine. The publication examines the body composition of over 200 NCAA Division I male baseball players using Dual X-ray Absorptiometry (DXA). […]

Donald R. Dengel, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, recently co-authored an article titled “Use of an aromatase inhibitor in children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia: impact of Anastrozole on bone mineral density and visceral adipose tissue’” that was published in Clinical Endocrinology. The study found […]

Donald R. Dengel, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, recently co-authored an article, “Body composition and visceral adipose tissue in female collegiate equestrian athletes,” in the International Journal of Sports Medicine. The study discovered that equestrian riders have less fat mass and more muscle mass […]

Tyler Bosch, PhD, 2014 graduate of the School of Kinesiology, is the lead author of an article recently published in Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research. “Body composition and bone mineral density of division 1 collegiate football players: A consortium of college athlete research study” is the largest study done on total and regional body […]

Donald R. Dengel, PhD, professor of kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology at the School of Kinesiology is a co-author of an article recently published in the Journal of Clinical Densitometry. The article entitled “DXA-determined regional adiposity relates to insulin resistance in a young adult population with overweight and obesity” examined […]

Has football players’ athletic performance changed over the past 10 years? Don Dengel, PhD, professor in the School of Kinesiology, co-founder of Dexalytics, and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Physiology (LIHP), and Charles Jedlicka, graduate student in the School and research assistant in LIHP, co-authored an article, “Are NFL Combine Invitees getting bigger, faster, […]

Michelle Harbin, MS and doctoral student in the School of Kinesiology is the lead author of an article published in the American Journal of Hypertension. The article, Measurement of Central Aortic Blood Pressure in Youth: Role of Obesity and Sex, provides evidence that obesity related impairments in central aortic blood pressure and increased cardiovascular disease […]

Donald R. Dengel, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, is a co-author of an article published in the International Journal of Cardiology Heart & Vasculature. The article, VE/VCO2 slope in lean and overweight women and its relationship to lean leg mass, suggests that the VE/VCO2 […]

Donald R. Dengel, Ph.D., professor in the School of Kinesiology and director of the Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology, is lead author of an article published in the journal Biology of Blood and Marrow Transplantation. The article, “Vascular Structure and Function in Cancer Survivors After Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation,” examines the effects of hematopoietic cell […]