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Podcast: Physical Activity Researcher
Episode: Personalised Exercise Prescription - P3-EX algorithm - Prof Linda Pescatello (Pt2)
Description: Dr. Pescatello is Distinguished Professor of Kinesiology at the University of Connecticut (UConn). She holds joint appointments in the Departments of Allied Health Sciences, Nutritional Sciences, and Physiology and Neurobiology at UConn, and the Department of Community Medicine and Health Care at the UConn School of Medicine.
Her research focuses on exercise prescription to optimize health benefits — particularly among adults with hypertension and overweight and obesity — and on genetic and clinical determinants of the response of health-related phenotypes to exercise, particularly blood pressure and muscle strength.
Dr. Pescatello was an associate editor of the eighth edit...