abstract introduction: yoga as an exercise to improve the physical, psychological, social health condition, and promote the feeling of health in healthy people in the medical education community is considered. the aim of this research was to find the effect of 8 weeks yoga training on respiratory function and heart rate of non-athlete females. methods: 30 students of khorasgan azad university w...

OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that lower vital capacity is cross-sectionally associated with features of insulin resistance and is an independent predictor of incident type 2 diabetes. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted a prospective cohort study of vital capacity as a predictor of incident type 2 diabetes using 9-year follow-up data on 11,479 middle-aged adults without diabetes at b...

BACKGROUND The functional exercise capacity and its correlates in advanced cancer patients in stratified age groups were examined. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 105 patients with advanced lung cancer were recruited prospectively and stratified into young (≤50 years), middle (51-65 years), and old (>65 years) age groups. Respiratory performances, which included maximal inspiratory and expir...

[Purpose] This study sets out to investigate whether a short-term high-intensity arm ergometer exercise plan can be of benefit to adults whose poor ventilatory function places them at risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. [Subjects and Methods] A pre-experimental design with a convenience sample was employed. The study enrolled 30 adult smokers, aged between 18-25 years old,...

BACKGROUND Respiratory muscles are affected after cardiac surgeries. OBJECTIVE To verify whether the preoperative conditioning of the inspiratory muscles might help to decrease postoperative respiratory dysfunction. METHODS Thirty volunteers of both genders and with a minimum age of 50 years, while waiting for myocardial revascularization and/or cardiac valve surgery, were randomly assigned...

The authors examined the association between lung function, as measured by forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) and forced vital capacity, and the 10-year incidence of coronary heart disease among 14,480 participants in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study (1987-1998). Separate proportional hazards models were used for FEV1 and forced vital capacity, with gender-specific lung fu...