BACKGROUND Obesity begets atrial fibrillation (AF). Although cardiorespiratory fitness is protective against incident AF in obese individuals, its effect on AF recurrence or the benefit of cardiorespiratory fitness gain is unknown. OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate the role of cardiorespiratory fitness and the incremental benefit of cardiorespiratory fitness improvement on rhythm contr...

BACKGROUND Cardiorespiratory fitness (fitness) is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) mortality. However, the extent to which fitness improves risk classification when added to traditional risk factors is unclear. METHODS AND RESULTS Fitness was measured by the Balke protocol in 66 371 subjects without prior CVD enrolled in the Cooper Center Longitudinal Study between 1970 and 2006; ...

Physical inactivity, low physical fitness, and perceived stress during adolescence are presumed to be risk factors for various disorders and subjective health complaints. On the other hand, physical activity and physical fitness, as well as mindfulness qualities, are regarded as prerequisites for health and well-being in children and adolescent, possibly by moderating the negative effects of st...

BACKGROUND Sedentary behaviour is a major risk factor for developing chronic diseases and is associated with low cardiorespiratory fitness in adults. It remains unclear how sedentary behaviour and different physical activity subcomponents are related to cardiorespiratory fitness in children. The purpose of this study was to assess how sedentary behaviour and different physical activity subcompo...

background: the present study aimed to determine attitudes and effective factors in the acceptance of smart phones by physicians of the largest university of medical sciences in the south of iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was performed using structural equation modelling (sem) in 2014. study participants included 200 physicians working in the hospitals of shiraz university of medical...

The structure of the physical fitness students engaged in golf has been studied on basis long-term observations. Methods variance, correlation, and factor analysis were used to process results tests 242 male students. typical features development course classes formulated

Over the last years, Evolutionary Algorithms (EAs) have been proposed aiming to find the best configuration of the Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) parameters. Among several parameters of an EA that can influence the quality of the found solution, the choice of the Fitness Function is the most important for its effectiveness and efficiency, given that different Fitness Functions have distinct f...

Being overweight or obese might be a risk factor for developing depression. It is also possible that low cardiorespiratory fitness, rather thanoverweight orobesity, is thebetter predictorof depressivesymptomonset.Adults in the Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study (Dallas, Texas) underwent fitness and fatness assessments between 1979 and 1998 and later completed a questionnaire about depressive sy...

Impaired inhibitory control has been shown in individuals with substance use disorder (SUD). Cardiorespiratory fitness described as a potential factor to improve control; however, the benefits SUD are unclear. The aim of this study was investigate relationship between cardiorespiratory general and drug-specific SUD. Sixty-two male participants under treatment for performed test (go/no-go) test....