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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"sedentarism"”.
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Sex differences in the associations of physical fitness, physical activity, sedentarism, and sleep behaviour with oxidative stress in older adults: The INTERMAE project
… body composition, physical fitness, PA, sedentarism and sleep behaviour with oxidative stress levels, in a sample of Spanish older adults. This International Doctoral Thesis includes cross-sectional data from the INTERMAE project. A total of 76 participants (38 women, 68.8 ± 3.0 years …
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Influence of a physical exercise program, physical activity, sedentarism, body composition and physical fitness during pregnancy on body composition, physical fitness and neurocognition of the offspring: the gestafitos project
In the absence of contraindications, current Guidelines encourage women to perform combined aerobic and resistance exercise (i.e., concurrent exercise) during pregnancy to improve maternal and offspring health outcomes, as it has been shown to contribute positively to a better metabolic …
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Perceived benefits of, barriers and helpful cues to physical activity among tertiary institution students in Rwanda
… Health Organisation, physical inactivity or sedentarism is one of the leading causes of the major non-communicable diseases, which contributes substantially to the global burden of diseases, death and disability. The burden of mortality, morbidity and disability attributable to …
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Design as Preventative Medicine: Leveraging the Built Environment to Care for Health
… disease, driven by physical inactivity and sedentarism, represents a profound evolutionary mismatch between the human genome and modern environments. Reversing this trend requires urgently translating public health research into actionable architectural strategies. While modifying individual …
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Using non-targeted mass spectrometry to identify proteomic, metabolomic and lipidomic profiles in saliva to compare the impact of prolonged vs. interrupted sitting
… of proteins and metabolites in saliva to sedentarism was employed. The study involved 24 participants that engaged in both a prolonged sitting session and an interrupted sitting session, in a randomized order. Saliva samples were collected before and after each session, including a …
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Investigating Pathogenic Mechanisms and Biomarkers in Alzheimer’s Disease
… including diabetes, depression and sedentarism, are linked to AD, and the identification of shared molecular mechanisms between these risk factors and dementia has the potential to contribute to elucidate disease etiology. A big obstacle in developing therapeutics for AD is the …
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Negotiations of Power and Resistance: A spatial exploration of educational policy and practice with particular attention to the stories surrounding the learning and teaching of Gypsy/Traveller children
… associated with the dominant cultural norm of Sedentarism and those of Nomadism, which continues to be a strong cultural characteristic of many Gypsy/Traveller communities. A further finding highlights how community encouragement for the adoption of strict gender roles at a young age is also at …
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The ecology of change in outdoor therapy (ECO-Therapy) model: A preliminary theoretical framework for nature-based pediatric occupational therapy practice
… around the world. Ubiquitous technology use, sedentarism, over-protective parenting, and urbanization have caused a mass human migration to indoor lifestyles characterized by a lack of connection to the outdoors. This disconnection from nature has profound implications for children because …
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Pastoralists, Peasants, and Politics in Roman North Africa
… and its relationship to incipient agricultural sedentarism. The last of the introductory chapters reviews the literature of the Mediterranean elites and reveals their attitudes towards the pastoral nomad as a type. The analysis seeks to establish the precise nature of sedentarist prejudices as a …
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Fração prevenível da atividade física e câncer: revisão sistemática da literatura
… for the fight against neoplastic cells. Thus, sedentarism contributes to individuals gaining weight (a risk factor for some cancers), deregulating hormones (a risk factor for hormone-dependent cancers) and reducing the host's immune response. Objectives: To analyze the role of physical activity …