Sentences with phrase «activity levels»

Physical activity levels were also found to correlate with knowledge.

Among adults 60 years and older, males were more sedentary and had lower light - intensity activity levels than females.

The remainder of class time was spent doing light activities such as standing, listening or stretching, according to researchers, who analyzed activity levels of girls ages five to 18 participating in a variety of dance class types.

For all age groups, males generally had higher activity levels than females, particularly high - intensity activity, but after midlife, these levels dropped off sharply compared to females.

Furthermore, efforts to increase physical activity levels in this age group often fail.

«We found that recent activity may be more important for heart failure protection than past physical activity levels.

«19 - year - olds as sedentary as 60 - year - olds, study suggests: Teen years represent highest risk for inactivity; increases in activity levels only seen in 20 - something.»

Differences in activity levels, social sensitivity, awareness of other people — these become magnified once a child figures out which gender she or he belongs to.

Activity levels in the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex depended on how well subjects performed in recent trials.

«Activity levels at the end of adolescence were alarmingly low, and by age 19, they were comparable to 60 - year - olds,» says the study's senior author, Vadim Zipunnikov, assistant professor in the Bloomberg School's Department of Biostatistics.

According to Dr. Schaefer, «Schools and parents should consider structured time outdoors for children in an effort to boost physical activity levels and enhance [cardiorespiratory] fitness.»

«We measured the metabolic activity levels of microbial cells isolated from different areas of our skin and found that about 90 % of the bacteria on our skin are either dead or inactive» said Cummins.

The new study examined variation in the amplitude of fluctuations in what is called the blood - oxygen level dependent (BOLD) signal, which tracks activity levels in the brain.

The differences in nutrient availability (e.g., oil, sweat) on each skin site accounts for the differences in activity levels.

To find out how DISC1 acts on synapses, the researchers also compared the activity levels of genes in the healthy neurons to those with the variation.

«Compared with people who were still working, retirees had increased physically activity levels, reduced sitting time, were less likely to smoke, and had healthier sleep patterns.

Although ideally all data would come from animals in the wild, other studies have shown that TEE rates in captive and wild apes are about the same, regardless of activity levels, Van Schaik notes.

In all, activity levels of dozens of genes in the brain were distinct between the two types of mice, they report.

After adjusting the data for age, sex, race, education, smoking, alcohol use, blood pressure, diabetes, high blood pressure medication, cholesterol levels, statin use and body mass index, the researchers found that those people who met both the recommended activity levels and had vitamin D levels above 20 nanograms per milliliter experienced about a 23 percent less chance of having an adverse cardiovascular event than those people with poor physical activity who were deficient for vitamin D. On the other hand, people who had adequate exercise but were vitamin D deficient didn't have a reduced risk of an adverse event.

Schools are being looked to as a means for addressing childhood obesity and physical activity levels because of the amount of time students spend at school during the school year.

This is also the first adequately powered data set to demonstrate the importance of sex on physical activity levels in psychosis.

In the analysis, the team took into account other factors, such as a person's weight, smoking, physical activity levels, and overall diet, but still found that fruit and vegetables were beneficial.

Future studies following individuals» fitness and physical activity levels, memory, and brain function over the course of years would more directly address this issue.

In a paper published in The Lancet on July 27, first author Sallis and colleagues found that since the 2012 Olympics more countries have been monitoring activity levels and have drafted national policies to combat the problem, but the plans are operational in only 56 percent of countries.

Also included is data on activity levels, like running, walking or travelling on public transport, inferred from participants» raw accelerometer data.

«However, the specific food choices and activity levels children engage in may be subject to the timing and duration of lunch and recess.»

Partial knee replacements are often offered to younger people who, because of their higher activity levels, have increased failure rates.

Physical activity levels were measured as ideal when workers engaged in intense, break - a-sweat activity four or more times a week, including at work.

They then calculated physical activity levels by multiplying METs by minutes per week of exercise.

Normal and cancerous brain cells interfaced with graphene show different activity levels under Raman imaging.

These differing activity levels, which the researchers referred to as an «uncoupling» of the circuit, may explain why depressed people experience self - loathing, they said.

Keiko's activity levels increased to previous levels, thanks to regular trips with his carers outside the bay.

When the volunteers suspected they were being lied to, activity levels rose in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DPFC), an area near the front of the brain.

Ageing researchers Athanasios Metaxakis, Luke Tain, and Sebastian Grönke, in the department of MPI Director Linda Partridge, discovered that a reduced activity in the IIS signalling pathway leads to improved sleep quality at night and higher activity levels at day.

To separate the owls from the larks from the finches, and gain a more accurate alertness profile, the researchers tracked students» activity levels on days that they did not attend a class.

«Our results confirm that the beliefs these kids hold are related to physical activity levels,» Dishman said.

This age is a critical juncture in a child's life, as kids typically decrease their activity levels by 50 percent between fifth and sixth grades, said Rod Dishman, the study's lead author and a professor of kinesiology in the UGA College of Education.

Parents filled out questionnaires assessing eating behaviours, such as watching television while eating, dietary intake, parental concerns about activity levels and growth, screen time and use of supplements.

«However, the study does demonstrate that urinary incontinence symptoms are linked to physical activity levels in middle - aged women.

They found two immune genes whose activity levels rose during sleep deprivation.

For example, a sensor mat on a desk could guess a user's activity levels by measuring shifts in elbow pressure or how often a tea mug is picked up.

When the researchers treated mice with JQ1, many of the abnormal activity levels of Brd4 target genes returned to normal.

Testing ITGA5 activity in the saliva samples revealed that its activity levels increased during sleep deprivation.

When researchers engineered mice to lack FMRP, Brd4 was free to monkey with genes» activity levels.

Changing just one seated meeting per week at work into a walking meeting increased the work - related physical activity levels of white - collar workers by 10 minutes, according to a new study published by public health researchers with the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.

These tags are detected and measured using a sensitive DNA analysis technique known as massive, parallel sequencing, providing a quantitative readout of the gene's activity levels.

The PACE trial, published in The Lancet in 2011 [2], examined the effects of three different treatments for people with CFS, compared with usual specialist medical care (SMC): cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT, where a health professional helps the patient to understand and change the way they think about and respond to their symptoms), graded exercise therapy (GET, a personalised and gradually increasing exercise programme delivered by a physiotherapist), and adaptive pacing therapy (APT, where patients adapt activity levels to the amount of energy they have).

However, these standards don't account for differences in size (the average person is now taller and heavier), body composition (fat versus lean), age (older people have slower metabolisms), activity levels and gender: Women radiate as much as 35 percent less energy than the standard man.

Exactly how the oil affects the birds» activity levels isn't clear.

They report that the test can detect significant drops in the metabolic activity levels of all three types of tumors within 72 hours when exposed to an effective drug whereas tumors that were resistant to a drug show no change.