The term "physical fitness," like the term "fatigue," means many things to many people and before either can be profitably discussed it must be carefully defined. Physical fitness for most of the war duties implies that the heart, lungs, teeth, eyes, and all other parts of the body are organically sound and capable of, even though they may not be at present, working efficiently. It implies fitn...

Introduction Mental health disorders are among the most burdensome concerns in world; it affects more than 970 million people 2019. These deteriorate all aspects of life, especially professional field, impacting mainly physical capability, daily functioning, and productivity working-age population. Objectives To study socio-professional medical characteristics workers with psychiatric to assess...

Introduction: Physical activity promotes cerebral blood flow during cognitive tasks and possibly enhances performance. It is relevant to find relationship between post exercise recovery heart rate (RHR) resting pulse in medical students.
 Aims: To assess physical fitness Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 57 consenting healthy students, age 1730 years, underwent 3-Minutes Step Test th...

background : adiposity is correlated with metabolic complications, such as insulin resistance, glucose intolerance, hypertension etc. that finally can lead to coronary heart disease (chd). physical activity plays an important role in prevention of these diseases. we aimed to study body fat and plasma lipids and lipoproteins in different levels of physical fitness; also to examine any relationsh...

PURPOSE Previous studies have shown that physicians often have poor knowledge of the medical restriction on fitness to drive, or submit poor quality medical reports. To determine the reliability of physicians' reports on fitness to drive, the medical data provided on the standard medical fitness form was compared with the additional data collected on repeated assessment. METHODS A random samp...