Min-Hyeok Jang

• PhD Student at University of Nebraska at Omaha

Peripheral artery disease (PAD) is a prevalent and debilitating condition characterized by reduced blood flow to the lower limb extremities due to arterial plaque buildup. Traditional exercise/walking therapies have been used to improve vascular function and walking performance but suffer from low adherence rates due to pain and discomfort. Heat th...

Introduction A single bout of aerobic exercise is known to induce a temporary reduction in post-exercise blood pressure termed post-exercise hypotension (PEH). Meanwhile, an ischemic preconditioning (IPC), a series of short ischemia-reperfusion intervention, has also shown antihypertensive effects showing a potential nonpharmacologic intervention f...

Protective masks impose variable breathing resistance (BR) on the wearer and may adversely affect exercise performance, yet existing literature shows inconsistent results under different types of masks and metabolic demands. The present study was undertaken to determine whether added BR impairs cardiopulmonary function and aerobic performance durin...

Remote ischemic preconditioning (RIPC) has been shown to minimize subsequent ischemia-reperfusion injury (IRI), whereas obesity has been suggested to attenuate the efficacy of RIPC in animal models. The primary objective of this study was to investigate the effect of a single bout of RIPC on the vascular and autonomic response after IRI in young ob...

PURPOSE The primary objective of this study was to investigate the effects of local cold and heat stimuli on cutaneous thermal sensitivity and inter-threshold zone at rest and during exercise. METHODS Cutaneous warm and cold thresholds were measured on two body regions (forehead and hand) in three types of local thermal stress environments (neutral...

PURPOSE: Despite the growing need for recreation and work in cold environments, which often involve high levels of physical activity and significant body heat loss, studies investigating the impact of exercise during repeated cold exposure on cold adaptation are lacking. Therefore, this study aimed to examine whether exercise during repeated cold e...