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Effects of Whole Body Vibration on the Elderly
Published in Redha Taiar, Christiano Bittencourt Machado, Xavier Chiementin, Mario Bernardo-Filho, Whole Body Vibrations, 2019
Maíra Florentino Pessoa, Helga C. Muniz de Souza, Helen K. Bastos Fuzari, Patrícia E. M. Marinho, Armèle Dornelas de Andrade
Arterial stiffness can be measured in several non-invasive ways, of which pulse wave velocity (PWV) is considered the standard measure. The most common ways to measure PWV are brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), leg pulse wave velocity (lPWV) and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity (cfPWV). Stiffness is considered a predictor for cardiovascular mortality, since the greater the risk, the worse the cardiac overload will be in order to cause blood to flow through the extremities. Thus, it can contribute to an increase of afterload and left heart failure.
A novel neural network method using radial basis function for effective assessment of stiffness index on lumbar disc degenerative subjects
Published in Automatika, 2023
C. K. Sreeja, V. N. Meena Devi, M. K. Aneesh
Age, obesity, excessive cholesterol, smoking, lipid concentrations and a sedentary lifestyle led to arterial stiffening. Diabetes and arteriosclerosis are also increased by unhealthy diets [5,6]. Signal waveform-based indexes can be used to track changes in the elastic properties of the arteries that cause arterial wall stiffening with age, to identify disease conditions, useful information on left ventricle activity, haemodynamic properties, drug effects in medical treatment and advice on the need for lifestyle modifications [7,8]. Among other potential factors, body composition dealing with health-related components of physical fitness [9] may be associated with arterial stiffness even in healthy people. One way to determine arterial stiffness is pulse wave analysis, plethysmography principles are the most widely used non-invasive methods. As an accepted metric of arterial stiffness, Boyle’s law describes the relationship between volume and pressure. Subsequently, the goal of the present work was to measure the body composition analysis by bioelectric impedance analysis and measure arterial stiffness by finger pulse photo-plethysmography and the correlation between body composition and arterial stiffness in lumbar disc degenerative subjects with low back pain. Finger pulse photo plethysmography’s simple, non-invasive tool measures the opacity changes in disc degree. The neural network system on Radial Basis function helps in classifying the ordinary and anomalous stiffness measurement on disc degeneration.
Potential benefits of dietary nitrate ingestion in healthy and clinical populations: A brief review
Published in European Journal of Sport Science, 2019
Sinead T. J. McDonagh, Lee J. Wylie, Christopher Thompson, Anni Vanhatalo, Andrew M. Jones
Arterial stiffness, an early marker of the manifestation of adverse structural and functional changes within a vessel wall, is known to increase with advancing age and is associated with an elevated risk of hypertension, morbidity and mortality. Several studies have investigated the influence of dietary NO3− supplementation on arterial stiffness and endothelial dysfunction. In healthy, normotensive individuals, acute ingestion of a high NO3− meal (Liu et al., 2013) or beetroot-enriched bread (Hobbs et al., 2012), and the daily consumption of spinach soup for a week (Jovanovski et al., 2015), have been reported to reduce arterial stiffness as well as BP. In contrast, Bondonno et al. (2014) found that the regular consumption of green leafy vegetables over a 7 day period had no significant effect on arterial stiffness or BP in individuals with high-normal BP. Interestingly, daily ingestion of sodium NO3− for 4 weeks improved endothelial dysfunction, vascular stiffness and SBP in older persons without history of cardiovascular disease but at moderately increased risk of cardiovascular complications (Rammos et al., 2014). Overall, these findings suggest that supplementing the diet with high NO3− foods may be effective in modulating adverse changes in arterial compliance. However, future work should focus on determining the impact of long-term dietary NO3− supplementation on arterial stiffness particularly in individuals with, or at risk of, cardiovascular disease.
Stature is negatively associated with increased arterial stiffness after high-intensity bicep curls training in young Japanese men
Published in European Journal of Sport Science, 2022
Kaname Tagawa, Youngju Choi, Song-Gyu Ra, Toru Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Kumagai, Seiji Maeda
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for >17 million deaths annually (Mozaffarian et al., 2015). A well-established evidence shows that arterial stiffness can predict cardiovascular morbidity and mortality in various populations (Najjar, Scuteri, & Lakatta, 2005; Sutton-Tyrrell et al., 2005; Vlachopoulos, Aznaouridis, & Stefanadis, 2010). Thus, increased arterial stiffness is closely involved in the pathogenesis of CVD.