We concluded that the overshoots of R, VE/VO, and PETO during recovery from maximal exercise reflect the natural cardiopulmonary adaptation after exercise and are more prominent in subjects with better cardiopulmonary function.

MM contains larger MFG and higher IL-6 levels than milk from the healthy breast. This difference is larger if accompanied by systemic symptoms of mastitis (fever/malaise). These changes decreased over time with treatment. Therefore, early initiation of appropriate treatment may be useful in limiting the processes that contribute to alterations in MFG size and IL-6.

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SummaryCardiac patients often experience nocturnal and daytime oscillatory breathing (OB). OB noted at rest sometimes becomes unclear or even disappears during exercise. We evaluated the physiological significance of OB by comparing the clinical characteristics of cardiac patients who manifested OB only at rest (group A), only during exercise (group B), and both at rest and during exercise (group C). Among 3,432 cardiac patients who underwent cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX), 114, 94, and 65 patients were identified as group A, B, and C, respectively. Left ventricular ejection function was 57 ± 17% in group A, 49 ± 20% in group B, and 41 ± 21% in group C (P < 0.05 for all comparisons among the 3 groups). The level of brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) was significantly higher in group C than in groups A and B. The peak VO2 was lower and the VE-VCO2 slope was higher in groups B and C than in group A.The present findings suggest that cardiac function is more impaired in cardiac patients who manifest OB both at rest and during exercise than in cardiac patients who manifest OB only at rest or only during exercise. (Int Heart J 2018; 59: 713-718)