Effects of local heat on metabolic health, frailty risk, and exercise adaptations in pre-diabetic older adults: Protocol for the Heat and Exercise in Aging as Therapy (HEAT) clinical trial

• Hui-Ying Luk ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: huiying.luk@ttu.edu (H-YL); danielle.levitt@ttu.edu (DEL)

  Affiliation Applied Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9194-7598

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• Casey R. Appell,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Applied Exercise Physiology Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

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• Fangyuan Zhang,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

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• Jarrod Blinch,

  Roles Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Perception, Cognition, and Action Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

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• K. Sreekumaran Nair,

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes, Metabolism and Nutrition, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America

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• Chwan-Li Shen,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

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• Danielle E. Levitt

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: huiying.luk@ttu.edu (H-YL); danielle.levitt@ttu.edu (DEL)

  Affiliation Metabolic Health and Muscle Physiology Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1865-1971

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