Publications by authors named "B Kayser"
Background: Maintaining physical activity throughout life is crucial for overall health and wellbeing. Yet the age-related decline in average physical activity, a natural phenomenon also observed in animals, poses a challenge. This study aimed to investigate whether participation in organised sports supported by the Swiss Youth+Sports (Y+S) programme is associated with sustaining or enhancing physical activity among children and adolescents during 5 years of follow-up.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The SOPHYA-cohort-study investigated whether the objectively characterized and perceived residential neighborhood of Swiss youth predict accelerometer-measured physical activity and activity in specific domains (participation in a sports club and cycling) five years later.
Methods: At baseline in 2014, 1230 children and adolescents aged 6 to 16 years participated and wore accelerometers for 7 days. Of these children, 447 participated again in the follow-up study in 2019 and provided longitudinal accelerometer measurements.
Article Synopsis
- - The study aimed to determine if a structured exercise program alongside standard care could prevent or delay insulin prescriptions for women with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM).
- - Conducted as a randomized controlled trial at a university hospital, the research involved 109 pregnant women diagnosed with GDM, with an intervention group participating in weekly exercise sessions and tracking their daily steps, while a control group received only standard care.
- - Results showed no significant difference in the rate of insulin prescriptions between the intervention and control groups, likely due to low adherence to the exercise program, a small sample size, and the brief study duration.
During sea-level exercise, blood flow through intrapulmonary arteriovenous anastomoses (IPAVA) in humans without a patent foramen ovale (PFO) is negatively correlated with pulmonary pressure. Yet, it is unknown whether the superior exercise capacity of Tibetans well adapted to living at high altitude is the result of lower pulmonary pressure during exercise in hypoxia, and whether their cardiopulmonary characteristics are significantly different from lowland natives of comparable ancestry (e.g.
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