Clinical Trial: Extreme Exercise and Energy Expenditure (4E) Study
Study Status: COMPLETED
Recruit Status: COMPLETED
Condition: Cardiovascular Diseases
Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
Official Title: Extreme Exercise and Energy Expenditure (4E) Study
Brief Summary:
The goal of this clinical trial is to provide evidence, through an extreme exercise prescription (1,144 km of road cycling on seven consecutive days), that weight loss is not the appropriate outcome to evaluate the effects of exercise on abdominal adiposity and ectopic fat depots (e.g.liver fat and epi/pericardial fat) in eleven recreational middle-aged male cyclists (aged 50 to 66 years) without symptoms of cardiovascular disease.The main questions it aims to answer are:If energy intake is substantially…
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