Cardiac Vagus and Exercise.
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Volume
34
Pagination
71 - 80
Publisher
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DOI
10.1152/physiol.00041.2018
Journal
Physiology (Bethesda)
Issue
ISSN
1548-9213
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Lower resting heart rate and high autonomic vagal activity are strongly associated with superior exercise capacity, maintenance of which is essential for general well-being and healthy aging. Recent evidence obtained in experimental studies using the latest advances in molecular neuroscience, combined with human exercise physiology, physiological modeling, and genomic data suggest that the strength of cardiac vagal activity causally determines our ability to exercise.