Kolehmainen, Laura Havulinna, Satu Ngandu, Tiia Strandberg, Timo Levälahti, Esko Lehtisalo, Jenni Antikainen, Riitta Hietikko, Elina Peltonen, Markku Pölönen, Auli
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Age and ageing
frailty syndrome is common amongst older people. Low physical activity is part of frailty, but long-term prospective studies investigating leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) during the life course as a predictor of frailty are still warranted. The aim of this study is to investigate whether earlier life LTPA predicts frailty in older age. the Fi...
Maeda, Noriaki Urabe, Yukio Suzuki, Yuta Hirado, Daigo Morikawa, Masanori Komiya, Makoto Mizuta, Rami Naito, Koichi Shirakawa, Taizan
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International journal of environmental research and public health
Urinary incontinence (UI) is a major social problem for older adults and leads to a decline in health-related quality of life (HRQoL), mental health, and physical activity. This study assessed the prevalence and symptoms of UI among older adults discharged from the hospital in Japan and investigated the association of UI symptoms with physical acti...
Zeng, Xia Cai, Li Wong, Stephen Heung-Sang Lai, Lijuan Lv, Yajie Tan, Weiqing Jing, Jin Chen, Yajun
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Academic pediatrics
This study aimed to examine individual and combined associations between after-school sedentary time (ST) and daily physical activity (PA) with executive function development in children. The study included 4304 children aged 6 to 12 years. ST and PA were assessed using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire Short Form, and executive fun...
Dorenbos, Elke Drummen, Mathijs Adam, Tanja Rijks, Jesse Winkens, Bjorn Martínez, J Alfredo Navas-Carretero, Santiago Stratton, Gareth Swindell, Nils Stouthart, Pauline
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Pediatric obesity
Pubertal insulin resistance (IR) is associated with increased risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus development in adolescents with overweight/obesity. The PREVIEW study was a randomized parallel trial assessing the change in IR, analyzed by Homeostatic Model Assessment of IR (HOMA-IR), at 2 years after randomization to a high protein vs a moderate prot...
Gómez Chávez, Lino Francisco Jacobo Pelayo Zavalza, Adrián Ricardo Aguirre Rodríguez, Luis Eduardo
van Alphen, Helena J M Waninge, Aly Minnaert, Alexander E M G Post, Wendy J van der Putten, Annette A J
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Journal of applied research in intellectual disabilities : JARID
Valid measures to assess either small or assisted performed movements of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) are required. We analysed the construct validity of the Actiwatch-2 to assess movement in people with PIMD. Twenty-two persons with PIMD were video recorded while wearing an Actiwatch-2. We used 15s-partial-int...
Olivo, Gaia Nilsson, Jonna Garzón, Benjamín Lebedev, Alexander Wåhlin, Anders Tarassova, Olga Ekblom, Maria Lövdén, Martin
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NeuroImage
Regular physical activity is beneficial for cognitive performance in older age. A single bout of aerobic physical exercise can transiently improve cognitive performance. Researchers have advanced improvements in cerebral circulation as a mediator of long-term effects of aerobic physical exercise on cognition, but the immediate effects of exercise o...
Wiltshire, Gareth Clarke, Nicola J Phoenix, Cassandra Bescoby, Carl
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Qualitative health research
Physical activity (PA) is an important lifestyle component of long-term health management for organ transplant recipients, yet little is known about recipients' experiences of PA. The purpose of this study was to shed light on this experience and to investigate the possible implications of PA in the context of what is a complex patient journey. Phe...
Conte, Kathleen P Held, Fabian Pipitone, Olivia Bowman, Sally
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Health promotion practice
Introduction. To maximize limited resources, many health promotion programs are designed to be delivered by volunteer lay leaders. But this model poses challenges to implementation in real-world settings and barriers to successfully scaling-up programs. This study examines the current lay leader training model for Walk With Ease, a Centers for Dise...
Martínez Heredia, Nazaret Santaella Rodríguez, Esther Rodríguez García, Antonio Manuel
A significant change is taking place nowadays, i.e. the progressive tendency to aging of the elderly population: longevity is avery latent characteristic in our society. This change is favoring the development of various policies for the preparation of the populationtowards an active and healthy aging, taking into account the benefits of physical a...