Background & Aim: The unexpected COVID-19 pandemic and the associated nationwide lockdown have had a huge impact on physical activity lifestyle of software employees. So, this study was conducted to explore relationship between changes in their pandemic. Material Method: A community-based cross-sectional among professionals using an online platform. They were asked about they experienced be...

Abstract Background The Danish health-care system has witnessed noticeable changes in the acute hospital care organization. reconfiguration includes closing hospitals, centralizing functions and investing new buildings equipment. Objective To examine impact on length of stay (LOS) proportion overnight stays for hospitalized patients. Methods This nationwide interrupted time series examined tren...

Personal characteristics of patients and environmental factors at psychiatric hospitals have been identified as predictors of absconding. This study seeks to establish a relationship between time of the year and absconding. All characteristics of absconders were analysed over a two-year period using hospital records (N= 104). Public holidays and lunar phases were obtained through almanacs for e...

We find that in the last 18 years the volatility over weekends has been stable, at about 10-20 percent greater for the three days from Friday’s close to Monday’s close than for a single intraweek trading day. However, while there was a large and statistically significant negative return over weekends prior to 1987, the post-1987 results indicate no weekend drift. In short, the negative weekend ...

BACKGROUND The "weekend warrior" engages in demanding recreational sporting activities on weekends despite minimal physical activity during the week. We sought to identify the incidence and injury patterns of major trauma from recreational sporting activities on weekends versus weekdays. METHODS We performed a retrospective cohort study using the Alberta Trauma Registry comparing all adults w...

The impact of latitude on sleep duration remains virtually unexplored, even though latitude exerts profound influences on daylight duration. Using Chile as a one-country model, we explored on the potential associations between sleep duration and latitude. Based on the 2nd Chilean Health Survey, we identified reported sleep data during spring of people living from north to south in Chilean citie...

The cortisol awakening response (CAR) is increasingly recognized as a potential biological marker of psychological and physical health status. Yet, the CAR literature is replete with contradictory results: both supposedly protective and vulnerability psychosocial factors have been associated with both increased and decreased CAR. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that the CAR flexibility ...

Background High sedentary time has been considered an important chronic disease risk factor but there is only limited information on the association of specific sedentary behaviors on weekdays and weekend-days with body composition. The present study examines the prospective association of total sedentary time and specific sedentary behaviors during weekdays and the weekend with body compositio...