Welcome
The Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP) is a teaching and research laboratory located in Mariucci Arena on the University of Minnesota campus.
The overall goal of LIHP is to gain a better understanding of the
effect of various diseases (e.g., obesity, cancer, metabolic
syndrome, etc.) on vascular as well as cardiac systems in an
integrative approach as well as to develop a better understanding of
how to treat the effect of these diseases on the cardiovascular
system. In addition, to its own goals the LIHP serves as a resource
to other investigators at the University of Minnesota to assist them
in their research objectives involving the measurement of vascular
and cardiovascular structure and function. Because of this unique
mission the LIHP collaborates with a number of researchers at the
University of Minnesota in various departments such as Pediatrics,
Epidemiology, Preventive Cardiology, Oncology, as well as
researchers in the University of Minnesota General Clinic Research
Center, St. Paul Heart Clinic and the Department of Veterans
Affairs.
The LIHP is under the direction of Donald Dengel, Ph.D., who also serves as co-director of the Body Composition and Human Performance Core in the University of Minnesota General Clinical Research Center.
What's New
Danielle Templeton and Mike Nelson presented posters at the ACSM's 55th annual meeting this May. Danielle presented a poster titled "Bone mineral content in overweight and normal weight children" and the poster by Mike Nelson was titled "Reliability of heart rate variability by sample entropy at rest and during light exercise in children". Dr. Dengel partook in a symposium discussing clinical physiology techniques.
Course at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden planned
for May 2009.
Download Exercise
in the Prevention of Metabolic Disease informational PowerPoint.
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Dr. Dengel and colleagues recently published an article in the Journal of Pediatric Hematology Oncology entitled “Endothelial Function in Young Adult Survivors of Childhood Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia”. The article can be found in the publications section.
In September, Danielle Templeton presented a poster at the 24th PWP (Pediatric Work Physiology) Meeting in Tallinn, Estonia. The poster was titled "Effects of Adolescent Obesity and Physical Inactivity on Vascular Structure and Function in Young Adulthood".
Revised January 2008