Background: Nowadays, due to ineffectiveness of interventions in the prevention of obesity in school-age children, collaborative approach in order to prevent and control the obesity seems necessary. Aim: to assess the impact of health promotion programs with collaborative approach on physical activity levels of overweight school-age girls. Methods: This quasi-experimental and pretest/post-test ...

Patients undergoing conventional maintenance hemodialysis typically receive three sessions per week, each lasting 2.5-5.5 hours. Recently, the use of more intensive hemodialysis (>5.5 hours, three to seven times per week) has increased, but the effects of these regimens on survival are uncertain. We conducted a retrospective cohort study to examine whether intensive hemodialysis associates with...

potential confounders. We analyzed the relationship between leisure time physical activity and common cold incidence in 3,470 males who were followed up for 2 years. In contrast, the metaanalysis by Lee et al. included only 281 participants. Therefore, our study had much narrower CIs. For example, compared with the sedentary participants (n = 1,198), those who carried out moderate-level physica...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of 8-week retraining programs, with either two or three training sessions per week, on measures of functional performance and muscular power in athletes with anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR). Sixteen male athletes were randomly assigned to two groups after ACLR: a functional training group (FTG, n = 8) training 2 intense sessi...

overweight and elevated bmi can increase the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women. on the other hand, it seems that exercise training affect weight and bmi. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of exercise training on some anthropometric variables in postmenopausal women with breast cancer. thus, 29 postmenopausal women with breast cancer who received surgery, chemother...

Long-term nocturnal hemodialysis, which uses longer and more frequent sessions than conventional hemodialysis, lowers clinic blood pressure and left ventricular mass. We tested the hypotheses that short-term nocturnal hemodialysis would (1) reduce ambulatory blood pressure; (2) cause peripheral vasodilation; (3) lower plasma norepinephrine concentration; and (4) improve the arterial response to...

In this study, the electrical muscle stimulation device was used in treatment of back pain for a number players with city Baghdad, numbering (16 injured players), experiment took place during period (3 months) , two sessions per week, time session .It 15 minutes, to find out level and flexibility, it found that had positive effect reducing rehabilitating muscles, where great role noted improvin...

To the Editor: Dr Bhasin and colleagues reported that testosterone replacement therapy or resistance training resulted in gains in body weight, muscle mass, strength, and lean body mass in men infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) who have weight loss and low testosterone levels. However, the training protocol does not reflect the scientific basis for effective resistance trainin...

The aim of this study was to provide information on heart rate and blood pressure responses during a 3-week intermittent hypoxia breathing program in COPD patients. Sixteen participants with COPD symptoms were randomly assigned to a hypoxia or control group and completed a 3-week intermittent hypoxia breathing program (five sessions per week, each consisting of three to five breathing cycles, e...