Exercise Testing in Metabolic Myopathies

Abstract

Metabolic myopathies are a group of genetic disorders specifically affecting glucose/glycogen, lipid, and mitochondrial metabolism. The main metabolic myopathies that are evaluated in this article are the mitochondrial myopathies, fatty acid oxidation defects, and glycogen storage disease. This article focuses on the usefulness of exercise in the evaluation of genetic metabolic myopathies.

Authors

Tarnopolsky M

Journal

Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 173–186

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

February 1, 2012

DOI

10.1016/j.pmr.2011.11.011

ISSN

1047-9651

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Mark Tarnopolsky

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences

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