Reply to: "Ventilatory efficiency in athletes, asthma and obesity": different ventilatory phenotypes during exercise in obesity?

Sophie É Collins; Devin B Phillips; Andrew R Brotto; Zahrah H Rampuri; Michael K Stickland

doi:10.1183/16000617.0054-2022

Reply to: "Ventilatory efficiency in athletes, asthma and obesity": different ventilatory phenotypes during exercise in obesity?

Eur Respir Rev. 2022 Jun 28;31(164):220054. doi: 10.1183/16000617.0054-2022. Print 2022 Jun 30.

Authors

Sophie É Collins^{1

2}, Devin B Phillips³, Andrew R Brotto^{1

4}, Zahrah H Rampuri¹, Michael K Stickland^{5

6}

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
² Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
³ Respiratory Investigation Unit, Dept of Medicine, Queen's University, Kingston, ON, Canada.
⁴ Faculty of Kinesiology, Sport, and Recreation, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.
⁵ Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada michael.stickland@ualberta.ca.
⁶ G.F. MacDonald Centre for Lung Health, Covenant Health, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

Abstract

The ventilatory response to exercise may improve after 1) bariatric surgery in morbid obesity, and 2) CPAP treatment in obesity with obstructive sleep apnoea, but the prognostic utility of minute ventilation/CO₂ production in these patients is unclear. https://bit.ly/3Gl6rHW

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Asthma* / diagnosis
Athletes*
Exercise
Exercise Test
Humans
Obesity / diagnosis
Obesity / epidemiology
Phenotype