background: post-stroke dysphagia is common and is associated with the development of pneumonia. to investigate the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rtms) combined with traditional dysphagia therapy (tdt) on swallowing function in patients with post-stroke dysphagia. methods: in this single-subject study, four patients with dysphagia post-stroke included. the patients re...

background & objectives: several epidemiological studies have indicated factors such as leptin level, adiponectin and plasma adiponectin-to-leptin index to be the predicting biomarkers for cardiovascular diseases. given the importance of healthy nutrition and adequate exercise in reducing the risk of atherosclerosis, this study aimed to investigate the effects of fasting and aerobic exercise on...

potential confounders. We analyzed the relationship between leisure time physical activity and common cold incidence in 3,470 males who were followed up for 2 years. In contrast, the metaanalysis by Lee et al. included only 281 participants. Therefore, our study had much narrower CIs. For example, compared with the sedentary participants (n = 1,198), those who carried out moderate-level physica...

In the current work we asked whether executive function, as measured by tests of working memory capacity, might benefit from an acute bout of exercise and, more specifically, whether individuals who are lower or higher in working memory to begin with would be more or less affected by an exercise manipulation. Healthy adults completed working memory measures in a nonexercise (baseline) session a...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of transcranial magnetic stimulation synchronized with maximal effort to make a target movement in patients with chronic hemiplegia involving the hand. DESIGN Non-randomized double-blinded controlled trial. SUBJECTS Nine chronic patients with hemiplegia who were unable to fully extend the affected fingers following stroke. METHOD...

The purpose of this study was to determine the threshold of exercise energy expenditure necessary to change blood lipid and lipoprotein concentrations and lipoprotein lipase activity (LPLA) in healthy, trained men. On different days, 11 men (age, 26.7 +/- 6.1 yr; body fat, 11.0 +/- 1.5%) completed four separate, randomly assigned, submaximal treadmill sessions at 70% maximal O2 consumption. Dur...

background: the extent of bone minerals density (bmd) gained during childhood is good index for bmd in adulthood. recent studies imply that exercise increases bmd however, there are rare studies about the best ages in which exercise gives the highest effect on children’s bmd. this study was carried out with the aim of comparing the extent of exercise effect on various ages on bmd of boys of ila...