Handgrip Strength has Declined Among Adults, Particularly Males, from Shanghai Since 2000.

Background: Handgrip strength (HGS) is an excellent marker of general strength capacity and health among adults. We aimed to calculate temporal trends in HGS for adults from Shanghai between 2000 and 2020.

Methods: Adults aged 20-59 years from Shanghai, China, were included.

Absolute Agreement Between Subjective Hand Squeeze and Objective Handgrip Strength in Adults.

Kieser, J, Langford, M, Stover, E, Tomkinson, GR, Clark, BC, Cawthon, PM, and McGrath, R. Absolute agreement between subjective hand squeeze and objective handgrip strength in adults. J Strength Cond Res 39(1): 16-23, 2025-Despite handgrip strength (HGS) being considered a convenient muscle strength assessment, HGS lacks routine measurement in sports medicine and healthcare settings because barriers such as time and lack of instrumentation may exist.

Blood pressure variability associated with falls in nursing home residents.

Background: High variations in serially measured blood pressures (BPs) portend a variety of adverse clinical events including dementia, cardiovascular sequelae and frailty. In this study, systolic blood pressure variability (BPV) was examined for its association with fall frequency and time to next fall among older adults living in nursing homes.

Methods: BP values and falls over time were extracted from medical records of nursing home residents aged ≥65 years over a 10-month period.

Exploring pregnancy and postpartum experiences among geographically diverse elite athletes: A qualitative study.

Objectives: Female athletes who experience childbirth during their athletic careers can expect to return to elite sports postpartum and perform at a comparable or improved level. However, mothering athletes often encounter significant barriers when re-entering elite sports. The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of a geographically diverse group of mothering athletes who returned to elite sports after childbirth.

Evaluating a volunteer 'Health Champions' intervention supporting people with severe mental illness to manage their physical health: feasibility hybrid randomised controlled trial.

Background: People with severe mental illness (SMI) have worse physical health than the general population. There is evidence that support from volunteers can help the mental health of people with SMI, but little evidence regarding the support they can give for physical health.

Aims: To evaluate the feasibility of an intervention where volunteer 'Health Champions' support people with SMI in managing their physical health.

State Differences in Children's Mental Health Care.

Objective: This study estimates and compares variation in the probability of child unmet need for mental health care and difficulties accessing care for each state in the United States. Estimates are also generated and compared for three socioeconomic and demographic subgroups nationwide: racial and ethnic group, household income, and insurance type.

Methods: Using a retrospective, cross-sectional design, this study pooled 2016-2019 National Survey of Children's Health data.

Ophthalmology inpatient consultations: an Irish tertiary hospital experience.

Background: Ophthalmology consultation on inpatients is often important to optimise eye care and provide information for referring teams. Inpatient consultation may constitute a not-insignificant workload however. This study reports on the nature and necessity of ophthalmology inpatient consults in a large Irish hospital.

Robot-Aided Training of Propulsion: Effects of Torque Pulses Applied to the Hip and Knee Joint Under User-Driven Treadmill Control.

Objective: to establish whether torque pulses ap-plied by an exoskeleton to the hip and knee joint modulate propulsion mechanics and whether changes in propulsion me-chanics are sustained after exposure to torque pulses under user-driven treadmill control.

Methods: we applied twelve for-mulations of torque pulses consecutively over 300 strides to 22 healthy participants, and quantified the evolution of four outcome measures - gait speed (GS), hip extension (HE), trailing limb angle (TLA), normalized propulsive impulse (NPI) - before, during, and immediately after training.

Results: Metrics of propulsion mechanics significantly changed both during and after training.

A qualitative study of a Sporting Memories program in South Australia: belonging, participation, and social connection.

Background: Older people can experience health and social challenges such as loneliness, depression, and lack of social connectedness. There is need for programs and approaches that address the growing incidence of social isolation and loneliness for older people. One initiative that aims to address these challenges is the Sporting Memories program.

When and how perceived control buffers against cognitive declines: A moderated mediation analysis.

Although perceived control is a well-established predictor of cognitive aging, less is known about how and under what developmental circumstances these beliefs about personal influence may protect against cognitive declines. Our study examined light physical activity (LPA) as an unexplored mechanism that may link changes in two facets of perceived control (personal mastery, perceived constraints) to longitudinal trajectories of cognitive functioning. We also examined whether mediated pathways were moderated by age (i.

Assessing the safety and efficacy of prescribing psychologists in New Mexico and Louisiana.

This study aimed to compare patient outcomes between prescribing psychologists, psychiatrists, and primary care physicians (PCPs). Private insurance claims (2005-2021; = 307,478) were used to conduct an active comparator, new user longitudinal cohort study developed using target trial emulation. Inverse propensity for treatment weighting was used to adjust for baseline differences in a range of sociodemographic, clinical, and contextual patient factors.

Parent version of the Eating Disorder Examination: Reliability and validity in a treatment-seeking sample.

Background: Assessment of eating disorders (ED) in youth relies heavily on self-report, yet persistent lack of recognition of the presence and/or seriousness of symptoms can be intrinsic to ED. This study examines the psychometric properties of a semi-structured interview, the parent version of the Eating Disorder Examination (PEDE), developed to systematically assess caregiver report of symptoms.

Methods: A multi-site, clinical sample of youth (N = 522; age range: 12 to 18 years) seeking treatment for anorexia nervosa (AN) and subsyndromal AN were assessed using the Eating Disorder Examination (EDE) for youth and the PEDE for collateral caregiver report.

Scope-of-Practice Expansions Associated with Reduced Racial Disparities in Pediatric Mental Health Care.

To examine the association between scope-of-practice (SoP) regulations and racial disparities in pediatric mental health services. We used the National Survey of Children's Health (2016-2020; n = 33,790) to examine racial disparities in unmet mental health care needs and receipt of mental health medication between states with and without SoP expansions for psychologists and nurse practitioners (NP). Our primary outcomes were (1) unmet mental health care needs and (2) receipt of mental health medication.

Collective Weakness and Fluidity in Weakness Status Associated With Basic Self-Care Limitations in Older Americans.

Aims: To examine the associations of 1) absolute and normalized weakness cut-points, 2) collective weakness categories, and 3) changes in weakness status on future activities of daily living (ADL) limitations in older Americans.

Methods: The analytic sample included 11,656 participants aged ≥65-years from the 2006-2018 waves of the Health and Retirement Study. ADL were self-reported.

Gender and sex hormone effects on neonatal innate immune function.

Objectives: Scientific evidence provides a widened view of differences in immune response between male and female neonates. The X-chromosome codes for several genes important in the innate immune response and neonatal innate immune cells express receptors for, and are inhibited by, maternal sex hormones. We hypothesized that sex differences in innate immune responses may be present in the neonatal population which may contribute to the increased susceptibility of premature males to sepsis.

Weakness Thresholds Are Differentially Linked to Cognitive Function by Obesity Status in Older Americans.

Background: Weakness can be operationalized with several thresholds, which in turn, could impact associations with cognitive impairment when considering obesity status.

Objective: We examined the associations of absolute, normalized, and collective weakness thresholds on future cognitive impairment by obesity status in older adults.

Methods: We performed a secondary data analysis on the 2006-2018 waves of the Health and Retirement Study.