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....

In the light of Mozambique's progress towards the achievement of Millennium Development Goal 4 of reducing mortality of children aged less than five years (under-five mortality) by two-thirds within 2015, this study investigated the relationship between the province of mother's residence and under-five mortality in Mozambique, using data from the 2003 Mozambican Demographic and Health Survey. T...

NMDA receptor activation enhances inhibitory GABAergic transmission onto 1 hippocampal pyramidal neurons via presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms 2 3 Jiu-Gang Xue, Takayoshi Masuoka, Xian-Di Gong, Ken-Shiung Chen, 4 Yuchio Yanagawa, S.K. Alex Law, and Shiro Konishi 5 6 Department of Neurophysiology, Kagawa School of Pharmaceutical Sciences and 7 Institute of Neuroscience, Tokushima Bunri Uni...

There is evidence for differential stability in personality trait differences, even over decades. The authors used data from a sample of the Scottish Mental Survey, 1947 to study personality stability from childhood to older age. The 6-Day Sample (N = 1,208) were rated on six personality characteristics by their teachers at around age 14. In 2012, the authors traced as many of these participant...