the aim of the present study was to determine the effects of the number of training sessions in a week on psychological factors and memory of sedentary elderly. for this purpose, 45 sedentary male elderly (mean age, 73.15±6.54 years; height, 166.5±3.10 cm; weight, 64.45±4.06 kg; body mass index (bmi), 23.49±1.51 kg/m2) were voluntarily selected and divided into two training groups and one contr...

INTRODUCTION age-related macular degeneration (ARMD) is a leading cause of blindness in the elderly population. OBJECTIVE to frame a profile of patients withARMD and find out the factors associated with it MATERIALS AND METHODS a cross-sectional study was carried out including a total of 75 patients with ARMD presenting to the out-patient department of a tertiary level ophthalmic center in ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate changes over six years in physical activity and sedentary behavior assessed with accelerometry in a representative sample of Swedish adults. DESIGN A longitudinal study over six years. METHODS The cohort consisted of 1172 participants (46% males) in 2002 and 511 participants (46% males) in 2008, of which 478 (45% males) had valid data on b...

OBJECTIVE to determine the differences associated with age and endurance exercise training on the baroreflex function of healthy subjects. DESIGN cross-sectional study. SETTING university research department. PARTICIPANTS 26 (10 female) sedentary, healthy, normotensive elderly subjects (mean age 67 years, range 62-81), eight (two female) elderly endurance-trained athletes (66 years, 62-69...

cognitive performance such as prediction and reaction time changes along with aging. it seems that regular lifetime physical activity depends on the delay of these factors. this study aimed at investigating the effect of pilates training on the improvement of motor performance of sedentary elderly men in kermanshah city. 40 sedentary elderly men (mean age 72.15 ± 6.54 years) were selected from ...

Whether sedentary energy expenditure is normal or lower in elderly people has not yet been clearly established. Twenty-four-hour energy expenditure (24EE) and its different components were measured by use of a respiratory chamber in elderly (17 male, 2 1 female; 7 1 ± 6 y, I ± SD; 7 1 .2 ± 13.5 kg; 32 ± 8% fat) and young (33 male, 3 1 female; 24 ± 4 y; 84.5 ± 23. 1 kg; 25 ± 13% fat) subjects. T...

PURPOSE The purposes of this study were to examine patterns of objectively measured sedentary behavior in a national cohort of US middle-age and older adults and to determine factors that influence prolonged sedentary behavior. METHODS We studied 8096 participants from the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) Study, a population-based study of black and white adul...