Exercise training as vascular medicine: direct impacts on the vasculature in humans.
Exercise training decreases cardiovascular risk, but effects on traditional risk factors do not fully account for this benefit. Exercise directly impacts upon arterial shear stress, a stimulus to antiatherogenic adaptation in vascular function and remodeling. This review considers the impact of exercise training on vascular adaptation in large and small arteries in humans.
Green
Daniel J
DJ
Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, UK. d.j.green@ljmu.ac.uk
D000222:Adaptation, Physiological / Q000502:physiology*; D001808:Blood Vessels / Q000502:physiology*; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D033081:Shear Strength / Q000502:physiology; D014652:Vascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control