Publications by authors named "Italo R Lemes"
Background And Objective: In this systematic review and meta-analysis, we compared the effectiveness of the combined m-health and a cardiac rehabilitation program (CRP) and of CRP alone on functional capacity, adherence to CRP, and management of cardiovascular risk factors in cardiac patients.
Methods: Medline, EMBASE, Central, PEDro, and SPORTDiscus were searched, from inception until July 2020, for randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing the m-health with CRP combination with CRP alone for adults with heart disease. The PEDro scale and GRADE approach was used to assess methodological and overall quality, respectively.
Background: Prevalence of chronic musculoskeletal pain and depressive symptoms in adults is high; however, whether there is an association between these conditions in older adults is unknown.
Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the association of depressive symptoms with chronic musculoskeletal pain, and specifically with chronic LBP and knee osteoarthritis (OA), in community-dwelling older adults. In addition, we explored whether physical activity can mitigate these associations.
Introduction: Patients with low back pain may play an active role in the prescription of excessive spine imaging.
Objective: To determine the proportion of patients with low back pain who have beliefs not aligned with current evidence regarding the use of imaging and to identify factors associated with these beliefs.
Design: Secondary analysis of baseline data of a previously published randomized clinical trial.
Background: The magnitude of economic losses attributed to sleep problems and insufficient physical activity (PA) remains unclear. This study aimed to investigate the association between insufficient PA, sleep problems, and direct healthcare costs.
Objective: To investigate the association between insufficient physical activity (PA), sleep problems, and direct healthcare costs among adults.
Background: The non-invasive assessment of maximal respiratory pressures (MRP) reflects the strength of the respiratory muscles.
Objective: To evaluate the studies which have established normative values for MRP in healthy children and adolescents and to synthesize these values through a meta-analysis.
Methods: The searches were conducted until October 2023 in the following databases: ScienceDirect, MEDLINE, CINAHL, SciELO, and Web of Science.
Background And Purpose: People who live longer often live with multimorbidity. Nevertheless, whether the presence of multimorbidity affects pain and disability in older adults with chronic low back pain (LBP) remains unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate whether multimorbidity predicts pain intensity and disability at 6- and 12-month follow-ups in older adults with chronic LBP.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To investigate the effects of neuromuscular training, with minimal or no equipment, on physical performance of youth athletes.
Design: Systematic review with meta-analysis.
Methods: MEDLINE, EMBASE, CENTRAL, CINAHL, PEDro and SportDiscuss from inception to March/2022.
Article Synopsis
- A study comparing randomized trial registrations in physiotherapy found that the proportion of adequately registered trials increased from 34% in 2009 to 63% in 2019.
- Despite this progress, only 8% of trials in 2019 met the criteria for both prospective registration and clear primary outcomes, an improvement from 3% in 2009.
- Selective outcome reporting remains a significant issue, with 73% of assessable trials in 2019 exhibiting this problem, up from 47% in 2009, indicating ongoing challenges in trial reporting practices.
Aim: To investigate the association between physical activity and immunogenicity among SARS-CoV-2 seropositive patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases prior to and following a 2-dose schedule of CoronaVac (Sinovac inactivated vaccine).
Methods: This was a prospective cohort study within an open-label, single-arm, phase 4 vaccination trial conducted in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In this substudy, only SARS-CoV-2 seropositive patients were included.
The utility of cardiopulmonary exercise testing in athletes and physically active individuals with or without persistent symptoms after COVID-19.
Front Med (Lausanne)
April 2023
Introduction: Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) may capture potential impacts of COVID-19 during exercise. We described CPET data on athletes and physically active individuals with or without cardiorespiratory persistent symptoms.
Methods: Participants' assessment included medical history and physical examination, cardiac troponin T, resting electrocardiogram, spirometry and CPET.
To investigate the association between physical activity (PA) domains and chronic low back pain (LBP) in older adults. A cross-sectional study where sociodemographic, behavioral, and health variables; PA; and presence of chronic LBP were collected. Higher scores of PA defined the "more active" participants.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Physical activity associates with improved immunogenicity following a 2-dose schedule of CoronaVac (Sinovac's inactivated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine) in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD). This study evaluates whether physical activity impacts vaccine-induced antibody responses to a booster dose in this population.
Methods: This was a phase-4 trial conducted in São Paulo, Brazil.
Objective: To analyze the relationship between resistance training and body composition in adolescents.
Methods: A longitudinal 12-month follow up of 190 adolescents of both sexes categorized into three groups according to resistance training practice, as non-engagement (n=121), irregular engagement (n=44), and frequent engagement (n=25). The outcomes adopted were bone mineral density (BMD), lean soft tissue (LST), and body fatness (BF).
Introduction: Investigating the determinants of physical activity (PA) is an important strategy for the promotion of healthy lifestyles, mainly with PA of a moderate-to-vigorous intensity, which provides several health benefits in adulthood. In this sense, it is not clear whether early sports practice (ESP) during childhood and adolescence could be associated with the habitual practice of PA of higher intensities in adulthood.
Objective: This study aimed to analyze the association of ESP in childhood and adolescence with different intensities of habitual PA in adulthood.
Article Synopsis
- High prevalence of back pain in adolescents is linked to sedentary behavior (SB), but the connection hasn't been fully explored in this age group.
- The study involved 1,011 adolescents aged 10-17, examining their screen time and pain through the Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire, alongside factors like physical activity and socioeconomic status.
- Results indicated that both moderate and high SB are associated with neck pain in both sexes, but low back pain linked to SB was only significant in girls.
Resistance training has been proposed as a valid practice to counteract the aging effect on body mass and its components, which can be easily evaluated though the bioelectrical impedance analysis. This study aimed to achieve a systematic review with meta-analysis on the impact of resistance training on bioelectrical proprieties in older adults.A literature review was done in four electronic databases up to 1 January 2022.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis prospective cohort study within an open-label, single-arm, phase 4 vaccination trial (clinicaltrials.gov #NCT04754698) aimed to investigate the association between physical activity and persistent anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies 6 months after two-dose schedule of CoronaVac in autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD) patients (n = 748). Persistent immunogenicity 6 months after the full-course vaccination was assessed using seroconversion rates of total anti-SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG, geometric mean titers of anti-S1/S2 IgG (GMT), and frequency of positive neutralizing antibodies (NAb).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFLow back pain (LBP) and sleep quality are two very prevalent complaints in the older population. However, little is known about the prognostic relationship between sleep quality and disability in older adults with LBP. The aim of this study was to examine the association between sleep quality and disability in older adults with LBP.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To describe acute/postacute COVID-19 presentations in athletes.
Design: Systematic review and meta-analysis.
Data Sources: The search was conducted in four databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, SCOPUS, SPORTDiscus) and restricted to studies published from 2019 to 6 January 2022.
Background: Physical activity plays an important role in the prognosis of chronic low back pain (LBP); however, whether physical activity predicts pain intensity and disability remains unknown. This study investigated whether objective and subjective physical activity measures predict pain intensity and disability levels 6 months later in patients with chronic LBP.
Methods: Patients with chronic LBP seeking care at 2 outpatient physiotherapy clinics were recruited.
Objectives: To investigate the relationship between FOF and self-reported physical activity levels among older adults.
Design: Observational cross-sectional.
Setting And Participants: Community-dwelling older adults aged 60 years and over and without cognitive deficits were recruited.
Article Synopsis
- This study investigated if exercising before a SARS-CoV-2 vaccine boost could improve the immune response in patients with spondyloarthritis.
- A group of 60 patients was divided into an exercise group and a control group, with both assessed for immune response before and a month after vaccination.
- The results showed that exercise did not enhance the immune response, as both groups had similar levels of antibodies pre and post-vaccination, indicating that exercise does not add to the vaccine’s effectiveness for these patients.
Objectives: To investigate whether physical activity is associated with enhanced immunogenicity of a SARS-CoV-2 inactivated vaccine (Coronavac) in patients with autoimmune rheumatic diseases (ARD) (n = 898) and in non-ARD (n = 197) individuals without pre-existing immunogenicity to SARS-CoV-2.
Methods: This was a prospective cohort study within an open-label, single-arm, phase 4 vaccination trial. Immunogenicity was assessed after vaccination by measuring seroconversion rates of total anti-SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG (SC), geometric mean titers of anti-S1/S2 IgG (GMT), factor-increase in GMT (FI-GMT), frequency of neutralizing antibody (NAb), and median neutralizing activity.
Purpose: To investigate the association of sedentary behavior and physical activity from childhood to adolescence with prevalence of low back pain in adolescents. In addition, we also explored whether sleep quality influences this association.
Methods: This is a cross-sectional epidemiological study.
Objective: To examine the SARS-CoV-2 infection rate in a cohort of 6500 professional athletes and staff during the 2020 football (soccer) season in São Paulo, Brazil.
Methods: This retrospective cohort study included 4269 players (87% male, age: 21.7±4.