Letter to the Editor

Response to: Comment on “Differences in Ventilatory Threshold for Exercise Prescription in Outpatient Diabetic and Sarcopenic Obese Subjects”

Table 1

ANOVA results among obese groups (OB, OS, and T2DM).

Num DFDen DFFP

Variables at maximal effort
 Ventilation (L min−1)2451.540.23
O2peak (mL kg−1 min−1)2450.660.52
O2peak (mL min−1)2450.850.43
 METpeak2450.650.53
 %HRmax2451.420.25
Variables at IVT
O2IVT (mL kg−1 min−1)2456.790.003
 %VO2peak (%)2459.34<0.001
 METIVT2456.810.003
 %HRmax (%)2456.410.004
 %HRRIVT (%)2456.860.003
 ΔHR (bpm)2457.480.002

Note: OB: obese subjects; OS: sarcopenic obese subjects; T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus; O2: oxygen uptake; MET: metabolic equivalent; %HRmax: percent of theoretical maximal heart rate; %HRR: percent of heart rate reserve.