[Purpose] To evaluate the effect of a home exercise program on physical function in community dwelling elderly with pre-sarcopenia or sarcopenia. [Subjects and Methods] Fifty-two community-dwelling individuals, over 60 years and meeting the diagnostic criteria for pre-sarcopenia or sarcopenia, were randomly assigned to intervention group (n=34) and control group (n=18). The intervention group c...

BACKGROUND Physical activity (PA) participation offers many benefits especially among ethnic groups that experience health disparities. Partnering with faith-based organizations allows for a more culturally tailored approach to changing health behaviors. METHODS 8 Steps to Fitness was a faith-based behavior-change intervention promoting PA among members of African American churches. A quasi-e...

Pairwise Variability Index (PVI) gives a measure of the amount of variation between adjacent speech units, making it possible to arrange languages in a continuum of relative variability. In the present study, the PVI of Estonian speakers living in Sweden for over 60 years was compared to the PVI of Swedish and of Estonian spoken in Estonia. The results show that (1) PVI is significantly higher ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of the GOALS (Getting Our Active Lifestyles Started) family-based childhood obesity treatment intervention during the first 3 years of implementation. DESIGN Single-group repeated measures with qualitative questionnaires. SETTING Community venues in a socioeconomically deprived, urban location in the North-West of England. PARTICIPANTS 70 overweight or ob...

Background and aim Oral health is crucial for high-risk pregnant women in order to preserve their health and the health of their infants. Therefore, this study aimed to determine the impact of training programs on the behavior of pregnant mothers concerning oral health in Khorramabad, Iran. Methods This is an educational experimental study carried out in 2015 on 164 pregnant women referring t...

OBJECTIVE We developed a home-based rehabilitation exercise system incorporating a powered joystick linked to a computer game, to enable children with arm paresis to participate in independent home exercise. We investigated the feasibility and impact of using the system in the home setting. METHODS Eighteen children with cerebral palsy (median age 7.5 years, age range 5-16 years) were recruit...

The percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) procedure is associated with potentially high levels of radiation exposure and therefore increased risk of adverse radiation-induced outcomes, ranging from cataract to malignancy. Frame rate reduction and selective fluoroscopy storage may help reduce radiation exposure. In this study, we evaluated the efficacy of a radiation reduction protocol that u...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Newer P2Y12 inhibitors, such as prasugrel and ticagrelor, have greater antiplatelet efficacy but may increase the risk of bleeding. In this study, we compared the pharmacodynamic efficacy of prasugrel and ticagrelor in East Asian patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS). METHODS We selected 83 ACS patients undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention who were discharged wi...

Although cardiomyocyte damage is normally irreversible, gene therapy and somatic cell transfer offer potential for improving function in damaged regions of the heart. However, in ischemic models of injury, variability in depth, size, and location of damage compromises statistical evaluation of in vivo function. We have adapted cryoablation to create a reproducible, posterior, transmural lesion ...

OBJECTIVE This subanalysis of the VIVEVE I trial aimed to evaluate the impact of cryogen-cooled monopolar radiofrequency (CMRF) therapy, for the treatment of vaginal laxity, on the domains of sexual function included in the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI). MATERIALS AND METHODS The VIVEVE I clinical trial was prospective, randomized, single-blind, and Sham-controlled. Nine clinical study ...