Mean Blood Pressure Assessment during Post-Exercise: Result from Two Different Methods of Calculation.

At rest the proportion between systolic and diastolic periods of the cardiac cycle is about 1/3 and 2/3 respectively. Therefore, mean blood pressure (MBP) is usually calculated with a standard formula (SF) as follows: MBP = diastolic blood pressure (DBP) + 1/3 [systolic blood pressure (SBP) - DBP]. However, during exercise this proportion is lost because of tachycardia, which shortens diastole more than systole.

Dynamic balance is impaired after a match in young elite soccer players.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to assess the effect of actual match effort on dynamic balance abilities in young elite soccer players.

Methods: Seventeen Under 15 male players who compete at national level participated in the study. Their dynamic balance was assessed by having them jump starting with both feet on the ground in a standing position and land on one foot only.

A 12-Week Vigorous Exercise Protocol in a Healthy Group of Persons over 65: Study of Physical Function by means of the Senior Fitness Test.

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of vigorous exercise on functional abilities by means of a Senior Fitness Test (SFT) in a group of elderly adults. Twenty healthy and inactive people performed vigorous exercise (VE: 12 men and 8 women, aged 69.6 ± 3.

Relationship between static and dynamic balance abilities in Italian professional and youth league soccer players.

Objectives: To assess the existence of correlations between static and dynamic balance abilities in young and professional elite soccer players.

Design: Cross-sectional.

Participants: Fifty-one elite players who regularly compete at national level divided into two groups: Professional (age 18-34, n = 20) and Under 15-17 (age 14-16, n = 31).

Characterization of static balance abilities in elite soccer players by playing position and age.

In this study, we investigated the static balance of adult and adolescent elite soccer players to understand how expertise and playing position influence postural control. Seventy-one national level players were tested using a force platform to acquire Center-of-Pressure (COP) data in uni- and bipedal stance and calculate sway area (SA), COP path length, velocity and displacements. The results show significant differences in postural sway related to age and playing position only for single-limb stance.

Fatigue-induced balance impairment in young soccer players.

Context: Although balance is generally recognized to be an important feature in ensuring good performance in soccer, its link with functional performance remains mostly unexplored, especially in young athletes.

Objective: To investigate changes in balance induced by fatigue for unipedal and bipedal static stances in young soccer players.

Design: Crossover study.

Atrial tachyarrhythmia burden modelling by some electrophysiological parameters in pacemaker-recipient patients with Brady-Tachy syndrome.

Aims: (1) To correlate atrial tachyarrhythmia (AT) burden of pacemaker-recipient Brady-Tachy syndrome (BTS) patients with a number of diagnostics-derived parameters after 1 month of DDD pacing; (2) to asses whether the activation of atrial overdrive or conventional rate-responsive pacing may affect relevant variables and their correlation.

Methods And Results: After 1 month of DDD pacing, rate-responsive function or persistent atrial overdrive was randomly activated for 3 months, in 92 BTS patients. Some pacemaker diagnostics parameters collected at 1- and 4-month follow-ups were included in multiple linear regression models, whose dependent variable was the Log transformation of AT burden and compared.