Effectiveness of Exercise Intervention on Mobility, Postural Control, and Falls for Older Adults With Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.

Objective: To review and synthesize the effectiveness of exercise interventions on mobility, postural control, and falls in older adults with mild cognitive impairment (MCI).

Data Sources: This review was registered with PROSPERO (CRD42023453320) and adhered to the PRISMA guidelines. The PubMed, Embase, APA PsycInfo, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, CINAHL, and SPORTDiscus were searched from inception until September 2024.

Effects of stiffness-altered sport compression garments on lower-limb biomechanics in cutting maneuvers.

Athletes commonly use compression garments (CGs) for perceived effectiveness in preventing injury occurrence. However, limited evidence is available on whether lower-limb CGs reduce the risk of injury. This study aimed at (1) evaluating the effects of CGs on mitigating the risk factors of cutting-related knee injuries; (2) identifying undesirable side-effects of CGs on other joints and cutting performance; and (3) identifying possible interactions between sex and condition.

Effects of a multicomponent physical activity programme, Mobility-Fit, compared with a standard care lower limb strengthening programme, to promote safe mobility among older adults in care facilities: protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: Upper limb and core strength training is essential for older adults to safely perform daily activities. However, existing exercise programmes mainly focus on lower limb strength and are not designed or delivered to suit people with different functional capacities. This study describes the design of a two-arm cluster randomised controlled trial to examine the effects of a multicomponent physical activity (PA) programme, Mobility-Fit, on mobility and frailty in older adults living in care facilities.

Estimating sibling spillovers in health: Evidence on symptoms.

This paper estimates the sibling spillover effect in health symptoms using a sample of US adolescents from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health dataset. The research design of this paper is to restrict the sample to sibling pairs who are separated between schools, where one enters high school and the other middle school. Because of school separation, sibling pairs face independent health shocks from own school peers.

Better Health With More Friends: The Role of Social Capital in Producing Health.

This paper estimates the effect of an individual's number of friends on own health outcomes. The identification strategy exploits the panel structure of the friendship data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to estimate individual fixed effects in the likelihood of friendship formation and then uses the fixed effect estimates as a control function in a model relating health outcomes to number of friends. Empirical results show that having a larger number of friends improves physical and mental health and also lowers the frequency of smoking cigarettes.