This unit covers the pathophysiological basis of cardiac disease as well as the diagnosis, medical and interventional treatment of cardiac disease. The unit also revises the role of exercise in the prevention of cardiac diseases. The effects of exercise training on physiological and pathophysiological mechanisms are covered, as is the safety of exercise in high-risk individuals, contradictions and risk assessment, and stratification, diagnostic, prognostic and prescriptive interpretation of exercise test results, and design and supervision of exercise programs. -- Course Website
Instructor: Winthrop Professor Danny Green
Prerequisites: enrolment in the Bachelor of Exercise Rehabilitation Science (50300) or the Graduate Diploma in Science (Exercise Rehabilitation) (51150). This unit is available, with the permission of the Head of School, to students in the honours or graduate programs w
