Small muscle mass training localized to the quadriceps femoris muscle group has been proposed as an intervention to reverse heart failure-related skeletal muscle impairments. Although this training pa...
This single-blind, randomized controlled trial will aim to recruit 70 participants with heart failure. Participants will be randomized to either (i) standard training: combination of upper and lower e...
This study will address a gap in the literature regarding the efficacy of small muscle training under routine clinical conditions for individuals with heart failure. The findings will also provide ins...
Vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) phenotypic switching is identified as enhanced dedifferentiation, proliferation, and migration ability of VSMCs, in which microRNAs have been identified as importa...
Insulin resistance (IR) is a complex metabolic disorder that underlies several human diseases, including type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Despite extensive research, the precise mechanisms ...
It remains unclear whether plant-based or animal-based dietary patterns are more beneficial for older adults more in maintaining muscle mass. Using a prospective cohort with nationwide sample of China...
We included 2771 older adults (≥ 65 years) from the Chinese Longitudinal Health Longevity Survey (CLHLS) with normal muscle mass at baseline (2011 and 2014 waves), which followed up into 2018. Plant-b...
During a mean of 4.1 years follow-up, 234 (8.4%) participants with normal muscle mass at baseline showed LMM. The plant-based dietary pattern reduced the risk of LMM by 5% (Hazard Ratios [HR]: 0.95, 9...
When it comes to maintaining muscle mass in older Chinese people with functional independence, a plant-based diet pattern is more beneficial and effective than the animal-based one. People with functi...
Plantar flexor muscles always contribute to limiting the range of motion of ankle dorsiflexion in children with spastic cerebral palsy, but the individual contributions of these muscles are not well d...
Twenty-five children with cerebral palsy were included. The maximum passive dorsiflexion range of motion was measured in two positions: hip and knee joints in flexion, and both joints in full extensio...
In the analyses, the soleus and flexor hallucis longus muscle stiffness were significant independent factors for the dorsiflexion range of motion of hip and knee flexion (adjusted R...
Flexor hallucis longus muscle stiffness, in addition to triceps surae muscle stiffness, was shown to impact dorsiflexion range; attention should be paid to muscle stiffness in children with cerebral p...
To determine if time-efficient, high-resistance inspiratory muscle strength training (IMST), comprising 30 inhalation-resisted breaths per day, improves cardiorespiratory fitness, exercise tolerance, ...
We performed a double-blind, randomized, sham-controlled clinical trial (NCT03266510) testing 6 weeks of IMST (30 breaths/day, 6 days/week, 55%-75% maximal inspiratory pressure) versus low-resistance ...
Thirty-five participants (17 women, 18 men) completed high-resistance IMST (n = 17) or sham training (n = 18). Cardiorespiratory fitness (V̇O2peak) was unchanged, but exercise tolerance, measured as t...
These data suggest that high-resistance IMST is an effective, time-efficient lifestyle intervention for improving exercise tolerance in healthy midlife and older adults....
With growing consumer interest in meat quality, the need for accurate quality assessment becomes increasingly important. One crucial factor of Korean beef quality is the longissimus muscle area, which...
It is essential yet highly challenging to preoperatively diagnose variant histologies such as urothelial carcinoma with squamous differentiation (UC w/SD) from pure UC in patients with muscle-invasive...
A total of 119 MIBC patients who underwent baseline bladder MRI were enrolled in this study, including 38 patients with UC w/SD and 81 patients with pure UC. These patients were randomly assigned to a...
This AutoML model enabled robust differentiation of UC w/SD and pure UC in patients with MIBC in both training set (ten-fold cross-validation AUC = 0.955, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.944-0.965) an...
The presented AutoML model, that incorporates the radiomic, semantic, and clinical features from baseline MRI, could be useful for preoperative differentiation of UC w/SD and pure UC....
This MRI-based automated machine learning (AutoML) study provides a non-invasive and low-cost preoperative prediction tool to identify the muscle-invasive bladder cancer patients with variant histolog...
• It is important to preoperatively diagnose variant histology from urothelial carcinoma in patients with muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma (MIBC), as their treatment strategy varies significantly. • ...
Muscle elasticity can be quantified with shear wave elastography (SWE) and has been used as an estimate of muscle force but reliability has not been established for lower leg muscles. The purpose of t...
A total of 109 recreationally active healthy adults participated. The study employed a single-cohort, same-day repeated-measures test-retest design. Elasticity, measured in kilopascals as the Young's ...
Intra-rater reliability estimates were good to excellent for NWB (ICC = 0.930-0.988) and WB (ICC = 0.877-0.978) measures. Inter-rater reliability estimates were moderate to good (ICC = 0.500-0.795) fo...
Despite the studies poor to good inter-rater variability, the intra-rater reproducibility represents the potential benefit of SWE in NWB and WB. Establishing the reliability of SWE with clinical and b...
Hypopressive exercises (HE) are postural and breathing exercises that activate deep muscles in the abdomen and pelvic floor. Despite this, there is still no consensus in the literature on its real eff...
This is a systematic review of randomized clinical trials found in the PEDro, PubMed, Cochrane, LILACS, and Embase databases. We include studies that evaluate the effects of HE (with or without other ...
HE were effective in improving strength, tone, and reducing symptoms of pelvic floor dysfunctions, in magnitude less than (in two studies) or equal (in one study) to the pelvic floor muscle training (...
The HE presented positive results to the evaluated parameters. However, the information is still preliminary and scarce. There are methodological divergences regarding the execution, follow-up and sta...
