Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine
Volume 11, Issue 7 , Pages 284-289, July 2010

Starvation, exercise, injury and obesity

Iain Campbell FRCA is Consultant Anaesthetist at the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Trust, and visiting Professor of Human Physiology at Liverpool John Moores University. He qualified from Guy’s Hospital Medical School, London, and trained in anaesthesia in Zimbabwe, Southend, Montreal and Leeds

Abstract 

Starvation, exercise and injury place a metabolic ‘stress’ on the system. This article describes how the body adapts metabolically to a decreased nutrient supply, increased energy demands and a surfeit of nutrient supply. Many patients are malnourished, have impaired exercise tolerance, become injured, or are obese. An understanding of the metabolic physiology of these conditions is therefore desirable.

Keywords: Anaerobic threshold, carbohydrate, exercise, fat, protein

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PII: S1472-0299(10)00093-7

doi:10.1016/j.mpaic.2010.04.005

Anaesthesia & intensive care medicine
Volume 11, Issue 7 , Pages 284-289, July 2010

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