Objective. To assess walking capacity and physical activity using clinical measures and to explore their relationships with motor impairment late after stroke. Subjects. A nonrandomised sample of 22 men and 9 women with a mean age of 60 years, 7-10 years after stroke. Methods. Fugl-Meyer Assessment, maximum walking speed, 6 min walk test, perceived exertion, and heart rate were measured, and th...

Abstract Introduction Sleep restriction is associated with impairments to cognitive performance. A current strategy improve performance at work breaking up prolonged sitting light-intensity walking. However, it unknown whether this can counteract the impact of sleep restriction. This study investigated effect on under conditions Method 84 healthy adults (age M± SD 23.1±4.5 years; 41 females) pa...

OBJECTIVE We tested the hypothesis that physically active people with spinal cord injury do not have increased subclinical atherosclerosis compared with an age-matched able-bodied group. METHODS Subjects comprised 28 wheelchair athletes with spinal cord injury (mean age 22 (standard deviation (SD) 3) years) and 24 recreationally active aged-matched able-bodied control participants (mean age 2...

5 Abstract The present dissertation aimed at answering an important research question with support of three experimental studies: Is it possible to reduce typical AttentionDeficit/Hyperactivity-Disorder (ADHD) symptom behavior through strategies that improve intentional self-regulation? Thus, are ADHD children able to form if-then plans (implementation intentions) and do these plans enhance the...

BACKGROUND Major blood loss usually occurs in both hip and knee arthroplasty, frequently leading to the need for blood transfusion. This study was performed to determine blood transfusion rates and analyze the factors which affected the need for blood transfusion in patients who underwent primary unilateral total knee and hip arthroplasties at the University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica...

AIMS A low pulse pressure (PP) may reflect poor cardiac output (CO), but has not been well characterized by invasive haemodynamic studies. METHODS We investigated the relationship between PP and cardiac index (CI) in patients with cardiovascular disease including those with normal and impaired cardiac function. Cardiac catheterization data from 1897 patients was analysed. RESULTS Mean age w...

Título: Perfiles de lectura en adolescentes con síndrome de X frágil y síndrome de Down. Resumen: Las personas con síndrome de X frágil (FXS) y con síndrome de Down (DS) leen mejor de lo esperado para su edad mental. Hemos medido tres habilidades básicas de lectura (reconocimiento de palabras, conciencia fonológica y comprensión de lectura), y dos medidas estándar intelectual y verbal: Escalas ...

BACKGROUND The inactivity physiology paradigm proposes that sedentary behaviors, including sitting too much, are independent of the type of physical activity delineated for health in the Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans. Thus, we hypothesized that, when accounting for behaviors across the entire day, variability in the amount of time spent sitting would be independent of the inter-and...

Population-based data on myocardial infarction rates in the Islamic Republic of Iran have not been reported on a national or provincial scale. In a cross-sectional study, data were collected on 20 750 new cases of myocardial infarction (ICD10 codes I21-22) admitted to hospitals and registered by the Iranian Myocardial Infarction Registry in 2012. The crude and age-adjusted incidence for the 31 ...