Trial reportThe Journal of physiology2025
Post-exercise hot water immersion enhances haemodynamic and vascular benefits of exercise without further improving cardiorespiratory fitness, glucose, lipids or inflammation.
Trial report in The Journal of physiology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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5 citing papers in PubMed.
- Repeated Moderate and Severe Heat Exposure Has Divergent Effects on Skeletal Muscle Mitochondrial, Proteostatic and Neuromuscular Outcomes in Mice.Acta physiologica (Oxford, England) · 2026Article
- Daily hot-water immersion preserves altitude-induced haemoglobin mass expansion following descent independent of erythropoietin.Experimental physiology · 2026Article
- Acute hot-water immersion augments the diastolic blood pressure nocturnal dip in healthy adults.Experimental physiology · 2026Article
- Acute measurement of flow-mediated dilation following passive heating in adults: The confounding role of altered shear stress and baseline vasodilation.Physiological reports · 2026Article
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Abstract
There is considerable overlap between the mechanisms underlying the health benefits of exercise training and heat therapy. However, it remains unclear whether combining heat therapy with exercise can enhance improvements in cardiovascular and metabolic health. The present study investigated whether post-exercise hot water immersion (EX+HWI) could augment improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness, cardiovascular and metabolic health compared to post-exercise thermoneutral water immersion (EX+TWI). Twenty-four physically inactive middle-aged adults (age: 58 ± 5 years; body mass index: 28 ± 3 kg m
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