Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Cardiorespiratory fitness, white matter integrity tied to cognition

(HealthDay)—Cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is associated with better white matter (WM) fiber integrity in patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI), according to a study published recently in the Journal of Alzheimer's ...

Cardiology

CV exercise betters cardiac aging in sedentary middle-aged adults

(HealthDay)—Two years of high-intensity exercise training (ExT) is associated with improved maximal oxygen uptake and reduced cardiac stiffness in previously sedentary healthy middle-aged adults, according to a study published ...

Health

Lessons for optimizing exercise programs

Scientists previously thought that women may not respond to sprint interval training to the same Biological sex has little influence on how the body adapts to sprint interval training. That's according to findings published ...

Cardiology

Surprise cardiac finding predicts future risk

In patients with chronic ischemic heart disease, a small left ventricle with thick walls, is the strongest predictor of morphologic remodelling, which is generally considered a first step towards heart failure, according ...

Diabetes

Exercise-induced capillary density ups insulin sensitivity

(HealthDay)—Exercise training is associated with an increase in skeletal muscle capillary density (CD), which contributes to improvements in glucose metabolism, according to a study published online June 11 in Diabetes.

Neuroscience

Exercise can improve memory in 60-year-olds

A new study, in which researchers from Karolinska Institutet participated, shows that physical activity can improve memory performance in older people through increasing volume and blood flow in an area of the brain called ...

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