The tactical athlete: definitions, cardiovascular assessment, and management, and “fit for duty” standards

J Xu, MC Haigney, BD Levine… - Cardiac …, 2024 - cardiacep.theclinics.com
Understanding the physiologic demands and cardiac remodeling of competitive athletes has
been a focus of clinical and research efforts to enable better cardiovascular care of this …

Substances use and risk of hypertension before midlife in military young adults: Chief cohort study, 2014–2020

GM Lin, KZ Tsai, YC Chang, PY Liu, X Sui… - Progress in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Background The use of substances, eg, tobacco and betel nut, are prevalent among military
personnel in Taiwan, whereas some specific substances such as alcohol use are forbidden …

Cardiorespiratory fitness and carotid intima–Media thickness in physically active young adults: CHIEF Atherosclerosis Study

GM Lin, PY Liu, KZ Tsai, YK Lin, WC Huang… - Journal of Clinical …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background: The relationship of cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) with subclinical
atherosclerosis affected by the body adiposity has been observed in children, whereas this …

Estimated power output for a distance run and maximal oxygen uptake in young adults

GM Lin, KZ Tsai, X Sui, CJ Lavie - Frontiers in physiology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background: Both cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) and run field tests are
recommended by the American Heart Association for assessing the maximal oxygen uptake …

Sex-specific cardiometabolic risk markers of left ventricular mass in physically active young adults: the CHIEF heart study

KZ Tsai, PY Liu, WC Huang, JAC Lima, CJ Lavie… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Greater physical fitness may lead to greater left ventricular mass (LVM) and reduce the effect
of cardiometabolic risk factors on LVM. However, the cardiometabolic biomarkers …

Mitral valve prolapse and physical performance in Asian military males: The CHIEF Heart study

WN Liu, AC Feng, CY Hsu, PY Liu, KZ Tsai… - Journal of Sports …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The impact of mitral valve prolapse (MVP) and mitral regurgitation (MR) on physical
performance has not been examined. Of 1,808 physically fit Asian military males, we …

Athlete's heart assessed by sit-up strength exercises in military men and women: The CHIEF heart study

YK Lin, KZ Tsai, CL Han, JT Lee… - Frontiers in Cardiovascular …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Greater changes in cardiac structure and function in response to physical
training have been observed more often in male athletes than in female athletes compared …

Mean power output for muscular endurance exercises and maximal oxygen uptake in military young adults

GM Lin, KZ Tsai, DC Lee, X Sui, CJ Lavie - Medicine, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Abstract The American Heart Association recommends a cardiopulmonary exercise test
(CPET) and some alternative exercise tests to evaluate maximal oxygen uptake (VO 2 max) …

Machine learning for electrocardiographic features to identify left atrial enlargement in young adults: CHIEF heart study

CY Hsu, PY Liu, SH Liu, Y Kwon, CJ Lavie… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background Left atrial enlargement (LAE) is associated with cardiovascular events. Machine
learning for ECG parameters to predict LAE has been performed in middle-and old-aged …

Electrocardiographic and cardiometabolic risk markers of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction in physically active adults: CHIEF heart study

PY Liu, KZ Tsai, WC Huang, CJ Lavie… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Aim This study was aimed to investigate the association of cardiometabolic and ECG
markers with left ventricular diastolic dysfunction (LVDD) in physically active Asian young …