A Non-Randomized Pilot Study on the Benefits of Baby Swimming on Motor Development.

According to the concept of “embodied cognition”, motor development should not be considered distant from cognitive and language processes. Motor development is essential in the first 1000 days of life, as the child explores and learns new information from the environment. Among motor activities, baby swimming allows infants to make movements that they are not able to perform on solid ground.

Changes in the perceived epidemiology of primary hyperaldosteronism.

Primary aldosteronism has been considered a rare disease in the past years, affecting 1% of the hypertensive population. Subsequently, growing evidence of its higher prevalence is present in literature, although the estimates of disease range from 5 up to 20%, as in type 2 diabetes and resistant hypertension. The main reasons for these variations are associated with the selection of patients and diagnostic procedures.

Blood pressure assessment in haemodialysis patients: comparison between pre-dialysis blood pressure and ambulatory blood pressure measurement.

Aim: Hypertension is common in haemodialysis (HD) patients. Determining the most appropriate method of blood pressure (BP) measurement, representative of target organ damage, is still an issue. BP variations between pre- and post-HD treatment, or between on-dialysis day and off-dialysis day, are common.

Metabolic and endocrine effects of physiological increments in plasma ghrelin concentrations.

Background: Growing evidence indicates that the administration of large amounts of ghrelin to humans increases circulating concentrations of several pituitary and adrenal hormones, induces hyperglycemia and reduces serum insulin concentrations. At present, it is not known whether physiological increments in plasma ghrelin concentrations affect glucose kinetics or hormone concentrations in humans.

Methods And Results: We compared the effects of two- and three-fold increments in plasma ghrelin concentrations in eight healthy subjects during a 2 h intravenous infusion of 7.

Make your diabetic patients walk: long-term impact of different amounts of physical activity on type 2 diabetes.

Objective: To establish the impact of different amounts of increased energy expenditure on type 2 diabetes care.

Research Design And Methods: Post hoc analysis of long-term effects of different amounts of increased energy expenditure (metabolic equivalents [METS] per hour per week) through voluntary aerobic physical activity was performed in 179 type 2 diabetic subjects (age 62 +/- 1 years [mean +/- SE]) randomized to a physical activity counseling intervention. Subjects were followed for 2 years and divided into six groups based on their increments in METs per hour per week: group 0 (no activity, n = 28), group 1-10 (6.