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Fitness and cognitive performance in urban Latin Americans
(2016)
Our group recently
conducted a randomized clinical
trial in US dwelling older adults
that indicated increasing
cardiorespiratory fitness (measured
by VO2 peak on treadmill)
resulted in better visuospatial
cognition ...
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 ...
Software Libre para el diseño de herramientas virtuales: Aplicaciones psicológicas y educativas
(2010)
El presente taller propone introducir, destacar y
visibilizar los usos potenciales del SL en áreas de aplicación psicológica y educativa. Esto
se realizará utilizando principalmente un programa de SL denominado Blender, ...
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 ...
Validez y confiabilidad del Eating Attitudes Test en Costa Rica
Paper Presentation: Validity and Reliability of the Eating Attitudes Test in Costa Rica
(Revista costarricense de psicología vol. 33, supl. 1, p. 1-17. 2014, 2014-03-20)
Se exponen evidencias de validez y confiabilidad del Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40) en Costa Rica. En el Estudio 1 se adaptó el EAT-40 al léxico costarricense y se aplicó a 594 adolescentes. Se obtuvo un alfa de Cronbach ...
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 ...
Tecnología en preescolar: de las iniciativas autogestionadas al diseño de aplicaciones educativas
(2013)
Hoy en día, en el mundo entero, y como una consecuencia de la inserción de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en la sociedad, hay una tendencia cada vez mayor por intentar introducir la tecnología ...
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. ...