Description This assignment is designed to expose learners to research of the cardiovascular system ...

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Description This assignment is designed to expose learners to research of the cardiovascular system, its structure and function, and/or its relation to exercise performance. Instructions: No Chat GPT or any plagiarism  Students will select a topic from Chapters 7 & 9 to investigate further.( Power Points are below) Topic examples: heart rate variability, stroke volume, cardiac output, blood pressure, blood flow, cardiovascular drift, integrated cardiovascular response to exercise. Refine your topic by considering what is of interest to you and how it can relate to exercise performance, cardiovascular function, or health in general. For example, a topic of cardiac arrhythmia is quite broad and will pull up thousands or articles, so I will need to refine my search to a specific arrhythmia (atrial fibrillation). This is still broad, so I will refine my topic once more to create a research question/statement "atrial fibrillation effects on acute exercise performance". Find one peer-reviewed research article discussing your research statement/question. Utilize the CU library databases to facilitate your search. An original research article is best; this means the article includes an investigatory protocol in the Methods section. Meta-analyses are not ideal but will be acceptable for this assignment. Reviews and opinion articles should be avoided. If you need help of have questions do not hesitate to reach out.  Once you find an article, ensure it is relatively recent (published after 2017) and you can obtain a PDF download of the article for free. Read your article and be sure to take notes throughout your reading. You may need to read the article several times to fully understand what it is the researchers are investigating and discussing. Write a one-page article summary of your selected peer-reviewed article. Be sure to include the important components of any peer-reviewed article (e.g. Purpose/purpose statement, methods & demographics, results/outcomes, discussion/conclusions).