Objective: to describe the sociodemographic and clinical profile, life habits workload of a family caregiver elderly people admitted university hospital. Method: this is cross-sectional, quantitative study carried out with 161 caregivers/relatives during hospitalization at The Informal Caregiver Burden Assessment Questionnaire was applied participants, data were analyzed using STATA 12.0® progr...

Indexes for arterial stiffness are, by their nature, influenced by the ambient blood pressure due to the curvilinear nature of arterial compliance. We developed a new concept of the "Modelflow aortic age," which is, theoretically, not influenced by the ambient blood pressure and provides an easily understood context (biological vs. chronological age) for measures of arterial stiffness. The purp...

Objective: Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a common problem in the elderly, and the prevalence for cardiovascular (CV) risk factors in this group is relatively high. Recently, there is increasing tendency of ED in young men under the age of 40. These young patients were more likely to have some kind of psychiatric problems instead of organic diseases; however, the CV risk factors may still exist. ...

Introduction: Social support is one of the most important indices affecting adaptation to aging process as well as the problems and complications of the aging period such as anxiety, death and social support. This study was aimed to determine the correlation of social support with death anxiety among the elderly of Tehran, Iran.   Methods: In this correlational study, 208 elderly referring to...

Sedentary behaviour is an emerging risk factor for poor health. This study aimed to identify ecological determinants of sedentary behaviour, for which evidence is currently scarce. The study participants were community dwelling adults from, respectively, the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (n = 271, mean age 79) and the 1930s (n = 119, mean age 83) and 1950s (n = 310, mean age 64) cohorts of the West...

The effect of voluntary exercise on azoxymethane (AOM; CAS: 25843-45-2)-induced colon carcinogenesis was investigated in male F344 rats. Beginning at 5 wk of age, all animals were divided into two groups (sedentary and exercise) and fed AIN-76A semipurified diet ad libitum. At 7 wk of age, animals were given AOM s.c. at a dose level of 15 mg/kg of body weight, once weekly for 2 wk. Four days af...

Nutrition and physical performance 113 I have to repeat again, and apologize for, my inability to give much indication of the effect of ageing on total daily energy expenditure. We have, however, seldom found much obvious difference between the mean values for comparable populations ; the mean energy output of sedentary men aged about 60 we have measured as about 2600 kcal/day, which is similar...

BACKGROUND Urbanization affects lifestyles in the developing world but no studies have assessed the impact on objectively measured physical activity in children and adolescents from sub-Saharan Africa. PURPOSE To compare objectively measured habitual physical activity, sedentary time, and indices of adiposity in adolescents from rural and urban areas of Kenya. METHODS Physical activity and ...