School of Kinesiology > Research Laboratories and Centers > LIHP
The Laboratory of Integrative Human Physiology (LIHP) is a teaching and research laboratory located in Mariucci Arena on the University of Minnesota campus.
The overall goal of LIHP is to gain a better understanding of the effect of various diseases (e.g., obesity, cancer, metabolic syndrome, etc.) on vascular as well as cardiac systems in an integrative approach as well as to develop a better understanding of how to treat the effect of these diseases on the cardiovascular system. In addition, to its own goals the LIHP serves as a resource to other investigators at the University of Minnesota to assist them in their research objectives involving the measurement of vascular and cardiovascular structure and function. Because of this unique mission the LIHP collaborates with a number of researchers at the University of Minnesota in various departments such as Pediatrics, Epidemiology, Preventive Cardiology, Oncology, as well as researchers in the University of Minnesota General Clinic Research Center, St. Paul Heart Clinic and the Department of Veterans Affairs..
The LIHP is under the direction of Donald Dengel, Ph.D., who also serves as Director of the Human Performance Core and Densitometry Services of the University of Minnesota's Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
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Lab News
- February 2011 - Vikings Study
Childhood obesity is a major public health problem plaguing the American health system. And it is because of the rising concerns surrounding the health of overweight and obese children and adolescents that the University of Minnesota and the Minnesota Vikings organization have partnered together for the Vikings Study. Aiming to engage overweight and obese youth and their families from the Twin Cities area, the Vikings Study comprises a 3-month period focused on comprehensive, intense, research-based nutrition and physical activity program, followed by a 6-month supervised maintenance phase focused on facilitating weight management, increasing physical fitness, and improving heart health and quality of life. Members of the Minnesota Vikings professional football team further interact with and encourage these youth participants as they embark on an improved diet and physically active lifestyle. - May 2009 - Course at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden planned
for May 2009.
Download Exercise in the Prevention of Metabolic Disease informational PowerPoint. (3MB)