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Cardiovascular disease is no longer confined to older populations is increasingly observed among young adults due to changing dietary habits, reduced physical activity, and persistent psychosocial stress. Conventional statistical and machine learning models often underperform in capturing nonlinear and...

Background: Postprandial regulation of central systolic blood pressure (cSBP) is impaired by obesity-related disorders. The present study aimed to examine the effect of hypocaloric diet intervention on cSBP when performing oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) in overweight/obese men and explore its mechanism. Methods:...

Objective: The impact of obesity measured by BMI on cardiovascular diseases remains controversial. We investigated the impact of obesity measured by BMI on the prevalence and correlation of aortic root calcification (ARC) and coronary artery calcification (CAC) in patients assessed by multi-detector...

Background: Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) have increased risk of cardiovascular (CV) events and mortality beyond that attributable to smoking. Increased arterial stiffness has been identified in COPD, however it prognostic value has not been established. The Framingham risk...

Purpose: To evaluate whether the acute effects of aerobic or isometric exercise on arterial stiffness parameters differ between boys and men. Methods: Fourteen boys (10 ± 2 years, BMI 17.8 ± 1.9 kg/m2) and nine men (26 ± 3 years, BMI 24.4 ± 3.3 kg/m2) completed maximal aerobic and isometric exercise...

Introduction: Fully automated cuff-based devices have been developed for the assessment of arterial stiffness via pulse wave velocity (PWV) measurement, such as the VaSera device (Fukuda Denshi). To date, measurements were confined to the heart-to-ankle segment, yielding PWV and stiffness indices that...

Background: Computed tomography angiography (CTA) is a standard tool for investigation of the abdominal aorta diseases. Currently, there are only a few published scientific articles devoted to the study of the infrarenal aortic size without pathology. The aim of the current work was to examine the indicators...

Obesity is a risk factor for DM. Quality of life is one of the parameters for evaluating the current clinical output of diabetes mellitus patients. Research has been conducted to determine BMI’s relationship with blood sugar levels and improve DM patients’ quality of life in primary care. This cross-sectional...

Introduction: Bioimpedance analysis (BIA) is becoming more widely used in clinical practice to measure water body compartments. BIA allows to calculate: total body water (TBW), lean body mass (LBM), fat mass (FM), intra- and extracellular water (ICW, ECW). Aim: The aim of this study was to evaluate...

The prevalence of obesity in children and adolescents in the world has continouosly increased. Some adolescents who lack night sleep tend to consume less plain water and more sweet beverages. Therefore, it will increase energy intake and decrease energy expenditure. This study aimed to analyze the association...

Cardiovascular diseases are substantial causes of mortality among patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). The aim of the study was an assessment of the impact of cardiovascular risk factors on left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) in children with CKD. Material and methods: The study was conducted...

Pre-elderly have a risk of developing degenerative diseases such as hyperglycemia. Several factors that can increase blood glucose levels pre-elderly are obesity adequacy (magnesium, zinc, and vitamin C). An observational analytic study with a cross-sectional approach that aims to determine the relationship...

Pulse wave velocity (PWV) is widely used for arterial stiffness assessment. Increased arterial stiffness is a predictor of cardiovascular risk in adults. There are limited data on PWV and its determinants in young people. Study was performed to compare PWV and its association with blood pressure (BP)...

Early detection and attention are required for early childhood development (the “golden age”) in the 0–6-year-old age group. One of the primary issues in children’s growth and development is improved development. Developmental delays are a problem in Indonesia’s health, affecting about 56.34% of preschoolers....

Background and objectives: It is known that high renin levels could damage the vasculature and may cause retinal detachment, stroke, heart failure and kidney failure. The objective of this part of the SABPA study was to determine if renin levels in low and high renin participants could contribute to...

Up-regulation of ET-1 activates inflammatory cells such as macrophages that release pro-inflammatory mediators such interleukin-6 which promote vascular inflammation and endothelial dysfunction, leading to arterial stiffness. Included in this study were 194 black and 197 white South-Africans. Cardiovascular...

Postmenopausal osteoporosis is one of the world's concern with high morbidity and mortality which is marked by low bone density which makes the bone fragile and increases the risk of fracture. It had be known that estrogen plays a role in women's bone health, that is to maintain the activity of osteoblasts...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (Type 2 DM) is a metabolic disease due to disorders of the pancreas in producing insulin. Poor diet can cause abnormal blood sugar levels. The Mediterranean diet is a diet that is recommended for people with type 2 DM because it contains unsaturated fatty acids (MUFA and PUFA),...

Introduction: Arterial remodeling is an adaptive phenomenon aimed at maintaining circumferential wall stress (CWS) within operating limits. It is characterized by widening of the inter-adventitial diameter (IAD) and increases in intima-media thickness (IMT). This process is maladaptive when CWS increases...

Lifestyle-related diseases are rising in Indonesia, underscoring the importance of identifying lifestyle factors that individuals can modify through their own efforts. This study aimed to clarify lifestyle determinants of hypertension and metabolic syndrome using health checkup data and lifestyle surveys....

A Cadet of SDP Palembang Transportation Polytechnic must have a prime level of health and fitness. In order to form these physical characteristics, energy sufficiency and nutritional status as well as physical activity must always be guaranteed to be at an optimal level. The study was conducted using...

IGFs and their binding proteins are increasingly recognized as important in understanding the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease. During the transition from premenopause to postmenopause, many women experience weight gain, hence we hypothesized that circulating growth hormones can play a role in...

Background: According to current ESH guidelines cardiovascular risk assessment is recommended in vast majority of patients with hypertension. However the groups of patients exist where risk assessment may be challenging. Aim: The aim of our analysis was to compare risk factors, and target organ damage...

Purpose: Vascular resistance remains a key determinant of arterial hypertension and target organ damage alters morbidity of the disease. Our aim is to investigate physiology and clinical relevance of the left ventricular and systemic vascular interaction in essential hypertension patients. Methods:...

Obesity occurs because of the accumulation of fat in the body and can occur due to high cholesterol so that it can interfere with health. This study aims to provide an overview of HDL, LDL, triglycerides, and total cholesterol in obese patients. This method is by calculating the Body Mass Index (BMI)...

Aim: Investigation of relationship between arterial stiffness indices and LAVI in hypertensive and normotensive subjects. Material and methods: Patients were recruited among Morawica town inhabitants. Study group (AH) consisted of 41 untreated hypertensives (20 men). Control group (NonAH)consisted of...

Dyslipidemia is a lipid metabolism disorder with an imbalance of lipid fraction in plasma, including increase in total cholesterol, LDL, TGA, and decrease in HDL. Changes in lipid profile levels can be influenced by several factors, namely diet, physical activity, lifestyle, age, sex, and genetics. Poor...

Background: Early return of reflected blood pressure (BP) waves from the lower body augments central systolic BP and increases systolic pressure-time index (SPTI) and wasted left ventricular (LV) pressure energy, which increase afterload and myocardial oxygen (MVO2) demand. Accordingly, we sought to...

The prevalence of diabetes mellitus increases as someone grows older. This increase is related to changes in lifestyle, including smoking, alcohol consumption, physical activity, eating patterns that lacks of vegetables and fruits, obesity, hypertension, and hypercholesterolemia. This study aims to determine...

By testing many physiological indexes of middle-aged and old people in Nanchang city, Jiangxi province, this paper studies the fitness effect of tennis on middle-aged and old people, explores the unique fitness effect of tennis on middle-aged and old people, and objectively evaluates it. Therefore, it...

Background: The aim of the study was to asses sex-dependent differences of obesity indices and inflammatory markers in non-diabetic hypertensive obese patients. Material and methods: 40 females and 25 males aged 59.8 ±10.1 and 54.6±11.9 years, respectively, were enrolled into the study. Serum TNF-α,...

This paper explored the effects of body mass index classification and college students’ physical function index in a study of the 1364 male students Henan university of agriculture subjects were divided into 4 groups. The result showed that the variation on physical fitness indicators among the different...

Hypertension causes the highest death in Indonesia namely in the amount of 37%. The highest category suffers from hypertension in Indonesia is at age 65-75 years old namely 26,7% - 27,9%. Hypertension is the increase of systolic blood pressure more than 140 mmHg and diastolic pressure more than 90 mmHg...

Obesity or being overweight is a factor in health that greatly lowers one's confidence. A lot of prevailing causes of death has been linked to obesity. The Body mass index (BMI), abdominal circumference, and hip circumference are anthropometric indicators commonly used to measure fat tissues in the body....

Impairment of vascular endothelial function is an early sign of atherosclerosis. An active lifestyle is suggested to be positively associated with favorable endothelial function as opposed to a sedentary lifestyle. The aim of this ongoing study (Lifestyle, Biomarkers and Atherosclerosis Study) is to...

Abstract- Hypertension is kind of chronic and risk disease cause the disease complications, to avoid the complications required the ability to self-management behavior such as lifestyle changes including blood pressure control, diet modification and physical activity. This research aimed to determine...

The aim of this research is to examine the relationship between the Body Mass Index, leg power, speed, and cardiorespiratory fitness among adolescents living in Bangka Belitung Islands. 105 adolescents with an average age of 18 years were randomly selected from senior high school graduates. These adolescents...

Basketball is a game that is played by two teams and each player has five people, each team trying to score as many as possible into the basketball hoop. The combination of basketball is defense and attack, to play well the player must master the basic basketball techniques and skills. Basketball game...

Artrithis gout is an arthritis that grows on people with high levels of uric acid in the blood. Factors affecting the artrithis gout include age, genetic factors, alcohol, lack of fluid, medications, obesity and nutrients. The purpose of this study was to know the correlation between BMI (Body Mass Index),...

The Norfolk Island Carbon and Health Evaluation (NICHE) Program is a project to trial the effects of a Personal Carbon Trading (PCT) system aimed at reducing carbon emissions and obesity related behaviours. This paper reports on a series of factor analyses designed to test attitudinal associations from...