Gender and Exercise in Relation to Obesity in Greek Elderly Population.

Purpose: The prevalence of sarcopenic obesity is increasing in older adults (>65 years) and older. Sarcopenic obesity is also related to reduced muscle synthesis, due to low physical activity levels. The purpose of the present study is to investigate possible risk factors, and effects of habitual activity status on different types of obesity in an elderly population.

Cardiac effects of exercise rehabilitation in hemodialysis patients.

Exercise training has well documented beneficial effects in a variety of cardiac disorders. End stage renal disease patients present many cardiovascular complications and suffer from impaired exercise capacity. No study to date has adequately examined the cardiac responses to exercise training in renal patients on hemodialysis (HD).

White coat hypertension detected during screening of male adolescent athletes.

We investigated the utility of the selective use of ambulatory BP monitoring (ABPM) and echocardiography in detecting truly hypertensive adolescents from a cohort of young adolescent athletes undergoing BP screening. A total of 410 athletes (aged 16.4+/-2.