Interventions for young children at risk autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may improve key developmental skills and remediate early ASD signs. Parents of 3 (19, 23, 26 months old) showing possible signs participated. The Parent Observation Early Markers Scale (POEMS) identified specific child concerns confirmed in baseline observations. Multiple designs across parent behaviors evaluated a parent-m...

The effects of endurance training on endurance performance characteristics and cardiac autonomic modulation during night sleep were investigated during two 4-week training periods. After the first 4-week training period (3 x 40 min per week, at 75% of HRR) the subjects were divided into HIGH group (n = 7), who performed three high-intensity endurance training sessions per week; and CONTROL grou...

Long-term nocturnal hemodialysis, which uses longer and more frequent sessions than conventional hemodialysis, lowers clinic blood pressure and left ventricular mass. We tested the hypotheses that short-term nocturnal hemodialysis would (1) reduce ambulatory blood pressure; (2) cause peripheral vasodilation; (3) lower plasma norepinephrine concentration; and (4) improve the arterial response to...

The COVID-19 pandemic that began in March 2020 gave rise to a number of challenges for first-year experience activities at universities globally. One the key was process onboarding students through an orientation programme could not take place face-to-face as per norm. In 2021, large South African university this study moved online platform, becoming week-long conducted on Microsoft Teams and c...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine whether the frequency of breakfast eating was related with overweight/obesity in Korean adolescents. METHOD We analyzed the data collected in the 5(th) KYRBWS, in which 72,399 adolescents participated in 2009. We assessed the association between frequency of breakfast eating and body mass index by using multivariate logistic regression analy...

OBJECTIVES Exercise on referral schemes (ERS) are widely commissioned in the UK but there is little evidence of their association with physical activity levels. We sought to assess the Northumberland exercise on referral scheme in terms of increased levels of physical activity and identify predictors of engagement. DESIGN A naturalistic observational study. SETTING 9 local authority leisure...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES Physical fitness level is a marker of cardiovascular health in young people. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of a school-based intervention program, focused on increasing the volume and intensity of physical education (PE) sessions, on adolescents' physical fitness. METHODS Sixty-seven adolescents (12-14 years old) from three secondary school class...