OBJECTIVE To verify if functional fitness (FF) is associated with the annual cost of medication consumption and mood states (MSt) in elderly people. METHODS A cross-sectional study with 229 elderly people aged 65 years or more at Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Coimbra, Portugal. Seniors with physical and psychological limitations were excluded, as well as those using medication that limits per...

PURPOSE: Cardiorespiratory fitness is suggested to be an important marker of cardiovascular risk, but is rarely evaluated in healthcare settings. In the present study directly measured peak oxygen uptake data (VO2peak) from a diverse population of 4637 healthy participants were used to develop and cross-validate a new non-exercise regression model of cardiorespiratory fitness for men and women....

BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that use of BMI as a screening tool to assess health in youth has limitations. Valid alternative measures to assess body composition are needed to accurately identify children who are aerobically fit, which is an indicator of health status. The purpose of this study was to examine the associations between select anthropometric measures and cardiorespiratory...

UNLABELLED Epidemiological studies suggest a dose-response relationship exists between physical activity and cognitive outcomes. However, no direct data from randomized trials exists to support these indirect observations. The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship of aerobic exercise dose on cognition. Underactive or sedentary participants without cognitive impairment w...

The aim of this study was to determine whether ownership and use of electronic media were associated with sedentary time and cardiorespiratory fitness (fitness) in youth. We also aimed to determine if associations were independent of physical activity (PA). Fitness was measured using the 20 m shuttle-run. PA, sedentary time, ownership of media devices and media use were self-reported. Participa...

OBJECTIVES To investigate whether bicycling to school improves cardiometabolic risk factor profile and cardiorespiratory fitness among children. DESIGN Prospective, blinded, randomised controlled trial. SETTING Single centre study in Odense, Denmark PARTICIPANTS 43 children previously not bicycling to school were randomly allocated to control group (n=20) (ie, no change in lifestyle) or i...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the characteristics and outcome of out-of-hospital cardiorespiratory arrest in children in Spain. METHODS Secondary analysis of data from a prospective, multicenter study analyzing cardiorespiratory arrest in children. Ninety-five children between 7 days and 16 years with cardiorespiratory arrest. Data were recorded according to the Utstein style. The outcome variables we...

BACKGROUND It is being increasingly recognised that reduced cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with poorer outcomes after major surgery. Exercise limitation and reduced aerobic capacity are common in people with end-stage liver disease. There is limited evidence about the role of exercise therapy in the management of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and no studies have looked at the effect ...

This pilot study assessed the effects of cardiopulmonary exercise testing and cardiorespiratory fitness on plasma neuropeptide Y (NPY), allopregnanolone and pregnanolone (ALLO), cortisol, and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and their association with pain sensitivity. Medication-free trauma-exposed participants were either healthy (n = 7) or experiencing comorbid chronic pain/posttraumatic stres...

Cardiorespiratory fitness as an explanation for the obesity paradox warrants further examination. We evaluated independent and joint associations of cardiorespiratory fitness and adiposity with all-cause mortality in 811 middle-aged (age, 53.3 ± 7.2 years) male never smokers without documented cardiopulmonary disease or diabetes from the Veterans Exercise Testing Study (VETS). Cardiorespiratory...