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Case Study: Donna is a 42-year-old female with a BMI of 27.3 kg/m2. Recently she has noticed some worrying symptoms including shortness of breath, dizziness, and racing heart rate. Lately she has had a difficult time going up the stairs in her house without having to stop and
catch her breath. Donna found this odd considering she played volleyball in university and has since stayed relatively active going for long walks with her two huskies around her neighborhood 3 times a week. Her daughter is just entering university and only lives
20 minutes away from their home. She went to her doctor to see what might be wrong and was diagnosed with heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. Donna has a history of heart failure in her family and recently, her 45-year-old sister was diagnosed with heart
failure as well

Question 1. Medication: List 2 specific medications and/or supplements that the patient might be taking for their health or performance. Select ones that would be 'most relevant' for your population. Briefly explain the mechanisms of action and hypothetical interactions (if any) with moderate-to-vigorous exercise.

Question 2. Physical Examinations: List and describe 2 procedures (excluding exercise tests) that you would like to examine to determine the extent of their symptomology. Select exams that would be most relevant for your population (e.g., while a blood lipid panel would be excellent for any individual, it might not be the most relevant for specialized cases). Describe a likely possible outcome of those procedures and their implications for exercise prescription. (e.g., if the case study was on Type II Diabetes, you might want to see an oral glucose tolerance test to evaluate glucose handling) (6 marks)Case Study KIN/HLTH 407 Fall 2022

Question 3. Evidence-based Recommendations: A good practitioner keeps up on the latest information from peer-reviewed studies. In the Assignment folder, there are links to four review articles that provide excellent summaries of the available literature supporting exercise prescription in each of the case study examples. Read the paper related to your assignment and answer the following guiding questions:
a) Exercise induces many changes to the body. In your opinion, what were the most important outcomes that were outlined in the summary and why?
b) Summarize the two strongest pieces of evidence that you think support the use of exercise in your population. Provide details on i) the authors of the original study; ii) the specific population details those authors investigated (age, sex, clinical characteristics); and iii) the major findings of that study.

c) Summarize the main recommendations for exercise prescription outlined in the paper
Question 4. Exercise Prescription: Based on what you learned in the above literature, create a general aerobic exercise prescription for the patient based on the FITT principle. Use the following format to submit your prescription.

Question 5. Secondary Prevention: Provide lifestyle suggestions to target two specific risk factors you identify in the case study as secondary prevention strategies.