BACKGROUND An increase of sedentary behaviors far from the Mediterranean lifestyle is happening in spite of the impact on health. The aims of this study were to describe sedentary behaviors in children and adolescents. METHODS A representative sample of 424 Spanish children and adolescents (38% females) involved in the ANIBES study was analyzed regarding their sedentary behaviors, together wi...

et al. Estimating peak work rate during incremental cycle ergometry from the 6-minute walk distance: differences between reference equations. Extra-pulmonary features in COPD patients entering rehabilitation after stratifica-tion for MRC dyspnea grade. BARBA et al. [1] touched on the sensitive issue of the ''weekend effect''. There is no dearth of studies concluding that there is a relative lac...

Objective Patients admitted as emergencies to hospitals at the weekend have higher death rates than patients admitted on weekdays. This may be because the restricted service availability at weekends leads to selection of patients with greater average severity of illness. We examined volumes and rates of hospital admissions and deaths across the week for patients presenting to emergency services...

BACKGROUND Patients admitted to hospital at the weekend appear to be at increased risk of death compared with those admitted at other times. However, a 'weekend effect' has rarely been explored in mental health and there may also be other times of year when patients are vulnerable. AIMS To investigate the timing of suicide in high-risk mental health patients. METHOD We compared the incidenc...

OBJECTIVES To compare the appropriateness of antibiotic treatment prescribed in an emergency department (ED) of a tertiary medical centre on weekdays and weekends. METHODS During a 1 month period, medical charts of 1029 ED visits for patients who were discharged from the ED were reviewed. Data of patients who were discharged with antibiotics were blind evaluated by two infectious disease spec...

OBJECTIVES This study was conducted to determine whether extended sleep time during the weekend improves alertness and performance during the subsequent week for workers who are habitually short on sleep time. METHODS Daytime employees in the manufacturing industry [38.3, standard deviation (SD) 8.1 years old, mean weekday sleep ≤6 hours] participated in a study that lasted 3 successive weeks...