EXCAR - Department of Circulation and Medical Imaging
Exercise, Cardiometabolic Health and Reproduction (EXCAR) Research Group
The Exercise, Cardiometabolic Health and Reproduction (EXCAR) Research Group aims to develop exercise training strategies to prevent lifestyle related diseases. We have a special focus on exercise as medicine in order to improve fertility and pregnancy outcome.
EXCAR was established in January 2015 with a grant from the Liaison Committee between the Central Norway Regional Health Authority and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). The group is headed by Trine Moholdt.
See also external webpage: HOME - EXCAR
On-going projects:
– Participants wanted!
- Exercise and breastfeeding
- Acute effect of endurance exercise on breast milk composition
- Associations between aerobic fitness and breast milk composition
- Foetal well-being and blood flow distribution during high-intensity interval exercise (HITFLOW)
- Time-restricted eating and high-intensity interval training with digital follow-up
Completed projects:
- Endurance training and time restricted eating before and during pregnancy
- Time-restricted eating in pregnancy
- Improving reproductive function in women with polycystic ovary syndrome by high intensity interval training (IMPROV-IT)
- Increasing success rate after assisted fertilisation by exercise in women with high BMI (FertilEX)
- Isolated and combined effects of time-restricted eating and high-intensity interval training in women with overweight/obesity (TRE-HIIT)
- Exercise training in pregnancy for overweight/obese women (the ETIP trial)
- High-intensity interval traninig in the form of exergaming
- Changes in physical activity and mortality
- Associations between intake of potatoes, health and mortality
- Seasonality in cardiovascular disease