Medicine and Surgery

Cardiovascular Physiopatology. Exercise Physiology. Respiratory, cardiovascular and metabolic adjustments and adaptations to physical exercise. Energy balance. Epidemiology of atherosclerosis. Low grade chronic inflammation and atherosclerosis. Cardiovascular risk factors. Pathological effects of sedentariness: Physiopatology of Sedentary behaviour. Healthy effects of motor activities, physical exercise and aerobic fitness on hypertension, type II diabetes, overweight and obesity, dyslipidemia and in general risk of coronary heart attack and stroke. Lifestyle as a medical therapy. Components of fitness. Prescription of exercise programs according to scientifically validated models.

Cardiovascular and respiratory Physiology.

The student is provided on the specific topics with material in the form of handouts produced by the teacher including the pdf of the lectures with all the slides. This material, in compliance with the new (January 2017) Essential Assistance Levels (LEA), includes the current guidelines on the promotion of physical activity, assessed by Ministry of health, Superior Institute of Health, Italian National Olympic Committe, Italian Paralympic Committee and some Scientific Societies and Medical federations.

The lectures, during pandemia, could be carried out in blended modality from the classroom and through a telematic video communication platform (Zoom) for students at home.

One University formative Credit (about 10 hours of lectures) is provided, divided in 3-4 blocks, within the integrated cardiology course (Integrated Pathology Ia) carried out in the II semester of the III year.

Oral exam

- American College of Sports Medicine Guidelines for Exercise testing and Prescription (Wolters Kluver - Lippincott Williams & Wilkins). - William J. Kraemer, Steven J. Fleck, Michael R. Deschenes. Exercise Physiology - Integrating theory and application. Second Edition. Wolters Kluwer 2016 (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins - Wolters Kluwer Health) - Garry Egger, Andrew Binns, Stephan Rossner. Lifestyle Medicine: Managing Diseases of Lifestyle in the 21st Century - McGraw Hill medical. Seconda Edizione. ISBN 0070998124, 9780070998124 - European Society of Cardiology. The ESC Textbook of Preventive Cardiology. Oxford University Press, 2015 -Designed to move. A Physical Activity Action Agenda. Edited by NIKE, American College of Sports Medicine e International Council of Sport (complete document can be downloaded from: http://www.sportsthinktank.com/uploads/designed-to-move-full-report.pdf).

The lectures, during pandemia, could be carried out in blended modality from the classroom and through a telematic video communication platform (Zoom) for students at home.