Overview
- Provide current views about exercise
- States the benefits of exercise in preventing and ameliorating various diseases
- Covers many aspects in the research of exercise and human health
- Involves future prospects
Part of the book series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology (AEMB, volume 1228)
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Table of contents (31 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Overview
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The Physiological Responses to Exercise
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Exercise and Metabolic Diseases
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Exercise and Cardiovascular Diseases
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Exercise and Musculoskeletal Diseases
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About this book
This book shares the latest findings on exercise and its benefits in preventing and ameliorating numerous diseases that are of worldwide concern. Addressing the role of exercise training as an effective method for the prevention and treatment of various disease, the book is divided into eleven parts: 1) An Overview of the Beneficial Effects of Exercise on Health and Performance, 2) The Physiological Responses to Exercise, 3) Exercise and Metabolic Diseases, 4) Exercise and Cardiovascular Diseases, 5) Exercise and Musculoskeletal Diseases, 6) Exercise and Neurological and Psychiatric Diseases, 7) Exercise and the Respiration System, 8) Exercise and Immunity, 9) Exercise and HIV/AIDS, 10) Exercise and Neuropsychiatric Disorders, and 11) Future Prospects. Given its scope, the book will be particularly useful for researchers and students in the fields of physical therapy, physiology, medicine, genetics and cell biology, as well as researchers and physicians with a range of medical specialties.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Junjie Xiao is the Vice Dean of the School of Life Science and also of the Medical School (in preparation) at Shanghai University. He is the Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Translational Research, BMC Sports and Science, Medicine& Rehabilitation, and a member of the editorial board of BMC Medicine. He is the author or co-author of numerous scientific articles in various journals, including Cell Metabolism, Nature Communications, Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics, Circulation, and Theranostics. His major research interest is exercise and myocardial protection, especially using exercise as a platform to identify novel targets for enhancing cardiac regeneration and combating heart failure.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Physical Exercise for Human Health
Editors: Junjie Xiao
Series Title: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1792-1
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1791-4Published: 28 April 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-1794-5Published: 29 April 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-1792-1Published: 27 April 2020
Series ISSN: 0065-2598
Series E-ISSN: 2214-8019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 459
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Human Physiology, Sport Science , Health Promotion and Disease Prevention