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Eating a solid breakfast 2 hours before exercise was neither beneficial nor deleterious for exercise tolerance in cardiac patients.

Practitioners can consider that solid meals do not negatively impact exercise performance in this population.

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Eating (SB) 2 hr before exercise was neither beneficial nor deleterious in this group of cardiac patients.
E W Derman et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 1997

Why this rating

Based on study design from abstract.

Source

THE EFFECTS OF PRE-FEEDING ON EXERCISE PERFORMANCE & METABOLISM IN PHASE III CARDIAC REHABILITATION (CR) PATIENTS 597

E W Derman et al. · Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise · 1997

DOI 10.1097/00005768-199705001-00596

cross-sectional · n=8
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