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Acute Effects of Exercise on Blood Pressure: A Meta-Analytic Investigation
(2015)
Hypertension affects 25% of the world’s population and is considered a risk factor for cardiovascular disorders and other diseases. The aim of this study was to examine the evidence regarding the acute effect of exercise ...
Características cineantropométricas e ingesta nutricional de mujeres y hombres costarricenses dedicados al modelaje publicitario
Kinanthropometric characteristics and nutritional intake of Costa Rican female and male advertising models
(2016)
El propósito del estudio fue describir las características cineantropométricas y la ingesta nutricional de mujeres y hombres costarricenses dedicados al modelaje publicitario. Se realizó un estudio transversal descriptivo ...
Effect of strength training on body composition, strength and aerobic capacity of Brazilians adolescents’ handball players related with peak growth rate.
Efecto del entrenamiento de la fuerza sobre la composición corporal, fuerza y capacidad aeróbica de los jugadores adolescentes de balonmano brasileños relacionados con el pico de crecimiento
(2016)
Objective: During adolescence are expected significant increases in growth rate, strength and body proportions. The purpose of this study was to examine changes in strength, body composition and aerobic capacity after a ...
Efecto agudo de una práctica «exergame» en el rendimiento del lanzamiento en baloncesto
Acute effect of «exergame» practice on performance in basketball throw
(2016)
El propósito del estudio fue examinar el efecto agudo de una práctica «exergame», en el rendimiento en una prueba de 25 lanzamientos al aro de baloncesto. Participaron voluntariamente 46 estudiantes de los cursos de ...
Health and Fitness Differences Between Urban and Rural Costa Rican Older Adults
(2019-06-01)
Costa Rica has one of the highest life expectancies in America, even higher than the
United States. Studies addressing health and fitness in Latin American urban and
rural older adults are scarce. PURPOSE: The purpose ...
Duathlon performance unaltered by short-term changes in dietary fat and carbohydrates
(2009-02)
Purpose:
This study investigated the effects of short-term dietary changes on metabolism and duathlon performance.
Methods:
Eleven men underwent a high-fat (HF; >65% fat from energy) or a high-carbohydrate (CHO; HC) ...
Cinética de la inmunoglobulina-A salival (IgAs) en adultos jóvenes con capacidad aeróbica promedio o excelente antes y después de una prueba de esfuerzo máximo
Salivary immunoglobulin A (sIgA) kinetics in young adults with an average or excellent aerobic capacity before and after a cardiopulmonary graded exercise test
(2017)
Background: Aim: To compare the concentration of secretory immunoglobulin-A (sIgA) in young adults with average or excellent aerobic capacity before and after a cardiopulmonary graded exercise test. Methods: Participants ...
C-20 Cardiorespiratory Fitness Predicts Processing Speed Performance in Urban Latin Americans
(2019-07-29)
Objective
There is evidence that cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) protects against age-related declines in processing speed (PS), but studies investigating older adults living in low and middle-income countries are lacking. ...
Impact of social support on cognitive vascular risk factors in latino older adults
(2019-11-15)
Objective: Central Americans have a cardiovascular disease (CVD) health advantage, as they are half as likely to carry CVD
as European Americans, despite having an equivalent degree of vascular risk factors (VRFs). We ...
Development of a VO2Peak prediction equation in elderly
(2017)
Introduction. Aging decreases aerobic capacity as determined by direct maximal tests (Hassel et al. 2015). There are indirect methods to assess aerobic capacity such as the 6-min walking test (6MWT). Some equations to ...