conclusions patients with normal exercise echocardiogram results regardless of ischemia or chest pain during the test had excellent outcomes over a one-year follow-up. objectives the aim of this cross sectional study was to assess the prognosis of patients with negative exercise echocardiographic results over a one-year period follow-up. patients and methods the outcomes of 336 patients who had...

abstract         background and objective: scientific evidence reveals that the density of skeletal muscle microcirculations decreases in the patients with chronic heart failure. therefore, this study aimed to determine the impact of submaximal aerobic exercise training on restoration of fast/slow-twitch muscle fibers microcirculation in rats with myocardial infarction.          methods: in thi...

background: inflammation and pain induced by delayed onset muscle soreness (doms) as a result of eccentric exercise (ee) or unaccustomed activity cause some difficulties in exercise for athletes. the purpose of this study was to survey the effect of ginger extract on biochemical and functional symptom of delayed onset muscle soreness.   methods : in a quasi-experimental study, 36 healthy female...

objectives we aimed to investigate the association between exercise and sexual function among postmenopausal women residing in northern iran. patients and methods using a multistage, randomized sampling method, 405 postmenopausal women, aged 40 to 65 years, were recruited to participate in this population-based, cross-sectional study. the female sexual function index (fsfi) questionnaire and a ...

background: overexpression of lectin-like low density lipoprotein (lox-1) receptor plays an important role in hyperglycemia-induced vascular complications such as atherosclerosis. based on the beneficial effects of exercise on preventing cardiovascular complications of diabetes, we aimed to examine the protective effects of aerobic exercise on expression of lox-1 receptor and production of free...

to investigate the effect of vitamin e supplementation on the response of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (icam-1) to exhaustive exercise, 16 active men were selected and divided into supplementation and placebo groups based on vo2max. the subjects in each group completed 65 minutes of exhaustive exercise after14 days of supplementation. blood samples were collected before supplementation and...

background: different stressors induce learning and memory impairment and physical activity influence learning and memory enhancement. in this research, we investigated the effect of synchronized running activity with stress on acquisition and retention time of passive avoidance test. methods: male wistar rats were randomly divided into five groups as follows: control (co), sham (sh), exercise ...

conclusions our findings revealed that aerobic exercise increases self-esteem. an improvement in educational, family, social, and general self-esteem scores was seen only in the experimental group. results the results showed that although the self-esteem average score was not significant before the intervention, it increased significantly in the experimental group. in the experimental group, th...

conclusions the data indicated that co-administration of grape seed extract and exercise training had more significant effects than exercise training or grape seed extract alone; this may constitute a convenient and inexpensive therapeutic approach to diabetic vascular complications. results the endothelium dependent vasorelaxation to acetylcholine was reduced significantly in diabetic animals;...