- Cardiovascular Physiology in Health and Disease

Catalog description

Students will explore cardiovascular aspects of human health and disease.  Students will pay particular attention to the cellular aspects of normal physiology and trained and diseased states.  Students will examine both the exercise response and training adaptations of the cardiovascular system to exercise stress. Students will be expected to give specific emphasis to the neural and hormonal mechanisms responsible for regulating the cardiovascular response to dynamic exercise.  Students will also examine physiological and anatomical changes to the cardiovascular system as a result of atherosclerotic heart disease, and explore ways in which exercise may help prevent and or reverse these changes.