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Showing 1 to 20 of 125 for “"lifestyle changes"”.
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Development of novel isolation methodologies for microvesicles and exosomes, as potential biomarkers for health (Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes), and use of microvesicle-delivered β-Gly in erythroleukaemia
Both MVs and exosomes are isolated by similar methodologies such as differential centrifugation of cell culture supernatant (S/N), filtration, floating on chemical gradients or using antibody labelled magnetic beads. Hence, the isolation techniques, commonly in use, provide low levels of …
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Study of intuitive eating ratings and self-efficacy differences in women with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)
… skills are more confident in sustaining healthy lifestyle changes.</p> <p><strong>Methods</strong>: A web-based survey was completed by 120 women with PCOS. Bivariate associations between the self-efficacy and intuitive eating scales was investigated using scatterplots, Pearson’s correlation …
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Increasing Self Care Compliance with Follow-up Appointments
… how to manage diet, medications, and other lifestyle changes needed for symptom management can lead to multiple readmissions and rapid progression of condition. Many patients feel overwhelmed at time of discharge from the hospital, and many miss key components in discharge instructions and …
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Patient Descriptions About Weight Loss Surgery Education Practices
… healthy bodyweight when combined with behavioral lifestyle changes. Patients who struggle with adhering to postoperative regimens are more likely to experience weight recidivism approximately one year after WLS. Nationally accredited WLS centers are required to support patients in making necessary …
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COMBINING EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION & A PEDOMETER-BASE PROGRAM TO REDUCE CVD RISK FACTORS IN MIDDLE-AGED ADULTS
… prescription program 1) resulted in subsequent lifestyle changes and in reduced CVD risk, 2) if the addition of pedometer-base exercise prescription in conjunction with weekly phone calls added to the student prescription would differentially reduce CVD risk, and 3) to determine if either of …
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COMBINING EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION & A PEDOMETER-BASE PROGRAM TO REDUCE CVD RISK FACTORS IN MIDDLE-AGED ADULTS
… prescription program 1) resulted in subsequent lifestyle changes and in reduced CVD risk, 2) if the addition of pedometer-base exercise prescription in conjunction with weekly phone calls added to the student prescription would differentially reduce CVD risk, and 3) to determine if either of …
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Treatment of severe obesity in adolescents; a mixed method approach
… generally is poor, with multidisciplinary lifestyle programmes failing to derive significant and sustained weight loss and often reporting high attrition (Luttikhuis et al. 2009). Furthermore, this evidence has predominantly focused on young people as a whole with little differentiation of …
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Determinants of Health-Promoting Lifestyle among Nurses in Taiwan
… nurse (RN) to the practice of a health-promoting lifestyle; (2) determine the combination of predictor variables explaining the variance in the practice of a health-promoting lifestyle; and (3) investigate other personal and environmental cues and characteristics related to health-promoting …
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Effects of a Pregnancy Lifestyle Intervention on Emotion Regulation in Infants Responding to a Toy Removal Task at One-Year of Age
… of intervention, where fetal exposure to healthy lifestyle changes can promote optimal ER in infancy. Infant electroencephalography (EEG; n=13) and heart rate variability (HRV; n=18) were measured at rest and in response to a toy removal task, to determine the ER of infants whose mothers …
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The Butt Stops Here: The Optimal Treatment For Child and Adolescent Obesity
… Regrettably, information and instruction on the lifestyle changes for physical activity, diet, and other behavioral modifications are often disseminated incorrectly, delayed, underutilized or ignored in the primary care setting. Furthermore, pediatric outcomes vary depending on the guideline. In …
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The Effects of Telephone Intervention on Arthritis Self-Efficacy, Depression, Pain and Fatigue in Older Adults with Arthritis
… to these programs, that they would make other lifestyle changes that would assist their arthritis self-management, and that the telephone interventions were helpful in facilitating medical care for arthritis exacerbations and other medical problems. Telephone intervention was helpful in …
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Mobile Carbon Footprinting: Sensing and Shaping the Carbon Emissions of Daily Activities Using Digital Technologies
Lifestyle changes for reducing greenhouse gas emissions are becoming a necessary component of climate change mitigation. Data-driven digital tools for encouraging widespread participation in bottom-up emissions reduction and climate action do not yet exist, however, and emissions remain illegible …
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Lifestyle self-management experiences of South Asians post myocardial infarction
… the general UK population. Reviews have shown lifestyle modification including physical activity, healthy diet and smoking cessation, alters the course of heart disease and reduces recurrences crystallising its significance as a cost-effective public health strategy to reduce the rising burden …
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Starting the conversation: a phenomenological study exploring registered dietitian’s lived experience counseling children living with obesity and their families.
… so they are able to make sustainable healthy lifestyle changes. To better their practice they would like a physical activity component in their education, more resources in family counseling, and motivational interviewing training.
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Treatment approaches to chronic decompensated heart failure
… and clinicians. For stage A and B patients, lifestyle changes, healthier diets, risk factors control, and comorbidities management are recommended. In stage C, aside from the general management in stages A and B are considered, medications like MRA, ACE-I, Beta-blockers, and SGLT2i, which are …
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Association of nutrition education with the delay of the conversion of pre-diabetes to diabetes in hyperglycemic veterans
… is a multi-factorial, complex disease where lifestyle changes including diet and exercise can play a pivotal role in its prevention and management. This retrospective study determined the effectiveness of an outpatient nutrition education program in preventing/delaying the diagnosis of type 2 …
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Water intake and adherence to clear fluid goals in children receiving treatment for encopresis
… behavioral strategies in helping children make lifestyle changes necessary to meet fluid-based recommendations.</p>
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Nėščiųjų gyvensenos ypatumai ir juos lemiantys veiksniai /
… Research shows that pregnancy correlates with lifestyle changes, but a larger proportion of studies show that a small proportion of pregnant women change their lifestyles, and that even if they try to adhere to the recommendations for a healthier lifestyle, they encounter a number of barriers. …
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Self-supervised learning for data-efficient human activity recognition
… become ubiquitous, bringing about significant lifestyle changes worldwide. Mobile sensing, which involves obtaining and analysing data from mobile devices and the environment, has emerged as an active research area. It captures the unique opportunity for mobile devices to offer insight into …
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