A SIMPLE RUNNING TEST TO ESTIMATE CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS. V.J. Leibetseder, C. Ekmekcioglu, P. Haber. JEPonline. 2002;5(3):6-13. With the increasing demand to assess cardiorespiratory fitness in leisure time sports and the fitness center setting, more practical tests than the exhaustive ergometric exercise test are desirable. Various submaximal exercise tests have been introduced that estima...

a periodic increase in blood pressure (bp) occurs during apneic episodes in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (osa). several factors including hypoxemia and an increase in heart rate (hr) were reported to be responsible for this increased bp. to examine the contribution of these two factors in increasing bp, 35 healthy male subjects (mean age±sd= 23.64±3.80) were studied in three experiment...

objective: for many years in herbal medicine the antihypertensive and lowering blood lipid properties of achillea wilhelmsii (a. wilhelmsii) have been suggested. in the present study the impacts of the plant extract on rabbit’s blood pressure and heart rate have been investigated. materials and methods: twelve nwz rabbits weighed 2-3 kg were randomly divided into two groups of 6 rabbits. the te...

background: at the present time, massage has become a popular therapy employed in complementary medicine. there is evidence showing that back massage might have many positive psychological effects, possibly due to having many autonomic nervous system afferent inputs. one of the frequent positions during massage is prone position. however, there has been limited research investigating the effect...

conclusions the mean heart rate was higher in participants who were overweight than those with normal weight. results the mean and standard deviation of the heart rate in the hot climatic condition and moderate exercise were 103.84 (3.34) for normal weight subjects and 108.67 (3.27) for overweight subjects. the mean and standard deviation of the heart rate in a very hot climatic condition and l...

OBJECTIVES To observe the relationship between chest pain/dyspnoea-heart rate during exertion in patients with angiographically proved Coronary artery disease compared to patients having negative Exercise Tolerance Test in a private and public sector hospital. METHODS This is an observational two centre study from Karachi in which 150 patients referred for Exercise ToleranceTest (ETT) at Ziau...

OBJECTIVE To examine the role of music and social contact on exercise benefits. METHODS Two hundred twenty-nine (n = 229) students were randomly assigned to one of 6 conditions: biking alone with iPod or friend in a laboratory, walking alone with iPod or friend outdoors, or biking or walking alone in control conditions. All participants completed 20 minutes of exercise at 70% of their maximum...

Fatty liver disease is one of the most common diseases in women with type II diabetes. While regular exercise can decrease the complication of this disease, it was not clearly identified. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of four weeks aerobic training on Liver Transaminases and some glycemic markers in women with type II diabetes.Materials and Methods: In this study, 20 patients...

the present study aimed to compare substrate oxidation and total energy expenditure during running with low and moderate intensity until exhaustion and one hour after exercise in obese male students. for this purpose, in a crossover study design, 11 male university students (mean age 20.45±1.69 years, bmi 31.26±1.3 kg/m2, body fat percentage 28.47±3.53 %) participated in this study. two exercis...