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Cardiac and Exercise Physiology in Adolescence

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The physiological response to exercise changes tremendously when children become adults. This chapter describes how exercise capacity, as well as anaerobic metabolism, develops throughout puberty and ventilatory pattern changes. In addition it presents an overview of the large variety of exercise limitations in adolescents with CHD that could be either congenital, like structural limitations resulting into impaired stroke volume or chronotropic impairment, or acquired deconditioning or detraining, enhanced thru parental overprotection and missing or insufficient counseling of medical doctors. Finally, it outlines the beneficial effects and importance of exercise and lifelong physical activity for all ages of CHD as prevention of cardiovascular disease starts already in childhood.

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  1. Institute of Preventive Pediatrics, Technische Universität München, Uptown München-Campus D, Georg-Brauchle-Ring 60/62, 80992, Munich, Germany

    Jan Müller

  2. Outpatient Section, Department of Pediatric Cardiology and Congenital Heart Disease, Deutsches Herzzentrum München, Technical University of Munich, Lazarettstr. 36, D-80636, München, Germany

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    Corina Thomet

  3. Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven – University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium and Institute of Health and Care Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

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Müller, J., Hager, A. (2016). Cardiac and Exercise Physiology in Adolescence. In: Schwerzmann, M., Thomet, C., Moons, P. (eds) Congenital Heart Disease and Adolescence. Congenital Heart Disease in Adolescents and Adults. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31139-5_4

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