BACKGROUND The workplace is a main setting for prolonged sitting for some occupational groups. Convincing evidence has recently accumulated on the detrimental cardio-metabolic health effects of leisure-time sitting. Yet, much less is known about occupational sitting, and the potential health risk attached compared to leisure-time sitting. OBJECTIVE To explore the separate and joint associatio...

Background To explore the impact of glycaemic control (HbA1c) on functional capacity during cardio-pulmonary exercise testing in people with type 1 diabetes. Methods Sixty-four individuals with type 1 diabetes (age: 34 ± 8 years; 13 females, HbA1c: 7.8 ± 1% (62 ± 13 mmol/mol), duration of diabetes: 17 ± 9 years) performed a cardio-pulmonary cycle ergometer exercise test until volitional exhau...

BACKGROUND Our study evaluated the effectiveness of the Workers' General Health Examination by health examination period and compliance. METHODS A retrospective cohort of the health examination participants in 2006 (baseline year: N = 6,527,045) was used. We identified newly occurring cardio-cerebrovascular disease over 7 years (from 2007 to 2013). After stratification by age, sex, and nation...

of 7 Conventional wisdom holds that extended bouts of monostructural training (run, bike, swim, row, etc.), commonly referred to as “cardio”, confer distinct and powerful advantage to athletic conditioning. This month we explore the proposition that traditional “cardio” may be neither as distinct nor as powerfula contribution to general conditioning as widely believed. In fact, we assert that C...

Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com Abbreviations: AD: Alzheimer Dementia; AMI: Acute Myocardial Infarction; PCI: Percutaneous Coronary Intervention; NCS: Neurocardiogenic syncope; POTS: Postural Tachycardia Syndrome; MCA: Middle Cerebral Artery; SUDEP: Sudden Unexplained Death in Epilepsy; TTS: Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy; AED: Anti-Epileptic Drugs; SAH: Subarachnoid Hemorrhage; NPE: Ne...

Over the past decade, understanding about feedback mechanisms involving the heart, lung and kidney is significantly improved. Each organ injury may trigger hemodynamic, neuro-hormonal and cellular pathway that may damage diverse organs. Recurrent acute on chronic injury may lead to the advanced stage of disease. On the other hand, chronic pathological conditions may decrease functional reserve ...

Ttiis is a useful book, in which the place of cortisone and other steroid drugs in the treatment of the rheumatic diseases is reviewed. The book falls naturally into two parts. The first section conisists of five chapters, and is concerned with the use of cortisone in rheumatoid arthritis. The second section consists of two chapters, the first of which decribes the general use of cortisone in d...