Movement behavior remains stable in stroke survivors within the first two months after returning home.

Background And Purpose: The aim of this study is to investigate changes in movement behaviors, sedentary behavior and physical activity, and to identify potential movement behavior trajectory subgroups within the first two months after discharge from the hospital to the home setting in first-time stroke patients.

Methods: A total of 140 participants were included. Within three weeks after discharge, participants received an accelerometer, which they wore continuously for five weeks to objectively measure movement behavior outcomes.

Prediction of Preadolescent Overweight and Poor Cardiometabolic Outcome in Children up to 6 Years of Age: Research Protocol.

Background: Dynamic risk estimations may enable targeting primary prevention of overweight and overweight-related adverse cardiometabolic outcome in later life, potentially serving as a valuable addition to universal primary prevention. This approach seems particularly promising in young children, as body mass index (BMI) changes at a young age are highly predictive of these outcomes, and parental lifestyle interventions at a young age are associated with improved long-term outcome.

Objective: This paper describes the design of our study, which aims to develop digitized tools that can be implemented in the Dutch Child Health Care (CHC) system or by pediatricians for children up to 6 years of age.

Predicting pulmonary hypertension with standard computed tomography pulmonary angiography.

The most common feature of pulmonary hypertension (PH) on computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) is an increased diameter-ratio of the pulmonary artery to the ascending aorta (PA/AAAX). The aim of this study was to investigate whether combining PA/AAAX measurements with ventricular measurements improves the predictive value of CTPA for precapillary PH. Three predicting models were analysed using baseline CTPA scans of 51 treatment naïve precapillary PH patients and 25 non-PH controls: model 1: PA/AAAX only; model 2: PA/AAAX combined with the ratio of the right ventricular and left ventricular diameter measured on the axial view (RV/LVAX); model 3: PA/AAAX combined with the RV/LV-ratio measured on a four chamber view (RV/LV4CH).