Educational intervention on nutritional, hygiene and health habits, in pupils of elementary (Intervención educativa sobre hábitos nutricionales, higiene y salud en alumnos de primaria)

An educational research study based on a classroom intervention with 6-9 year-old students (1th grade of Compulsory Primary Education.) is presented. The fundamental aim has been to verify the possible changes in the food ingestion, in the daily activities and in the habits of hygiene and health, in healthy children and girls in a Summer campus. For it we realized two educational interventions, which were including three evaluations, a preintervention and two more evaluations after every educational intervention. The results show that the realized interventions have been effective and have improved, in general, the habits in the daily activities of hygiene and of health of the children participants in the Campus. El trabajo que se presenta es una investigación educativa fruto de una intervención en un espacio físico-deportivo con estudiantes de 6 a 9 años (1º Ciclo de Educación Primaria). El objetivo fundamental ha sido averiguar los posibles cambios en la ingesta de alimentos, en las actividades diarias y en los hábitos de higiene y salud, en niños y niñas sanos en un campus de verano. Para ello realizamos dos intervenciones educacionales, que incluían tres evaluaciones, una preintervención y dos evaluaciones más después de cada intervención educacional. Los resultados muestran que las intervenciones realizadas han sido efectivas y han mejorado, en general, los hábitos en las actividades diarias, de higiene y de salud de los niños participantes en el campus

The validity of incremental exercise testing in discriminating of physiological profiles in elite runners

The goal of this study was to determine whether traditional ergoespirometric incremental exercise testing carried out to the point of exhaustion could be useful in distinguishing the physiological profiles of elite runners that compete in races that lasted about 8 minutes versus those that lasted about 2 hours. Ten male marathon runners (performance time: 2:12:04, coefficient of variation (CV) = 2.33%) and 8 male 3000 m steeplechase runners (performance time: 8:37.83, CV = 2.12%) performed an incremental test on the treadmill (starting speed 10 km·h-1; increments, 2 km·h-1; increment duration, 3 min to exhaustion). Heart rate (HR), VO2, and lactate concentrations were measured at the end of each exercise level. At maximal effort, there were no differences between the groups regarding VO2max and maximal HR; however, the workload time, vVO2max and peak treadmill velocity were significantly higher in the 3000 m steeplechase group (p<0.05). At submaximal effort, there were no significant differences between groups for VO2 (ml·kg-1·min-1), HR, or lactate. Our results show that this type of testing was not sufficient for discriminating the physiological profiles of elite runners who competed in middle-distance versus long-distance events (e.g. in the marathon and the 3000 m steeplechase)

A comparison of modelled serum cTnT and cTnI kinetics after 60 min swimming

Post-exercise elevations of cardiac troponin T (cTnT) and I (cTnI) are often used in isolation but interpreted interchangeably. Research suggests, however, that post-exercise cTn kinetic might differ with each isoform. In this cross-sectional observational study, we collected blood samples before, immediately after (5 minutes), and at 1-, 3-, 6-, 12-, and 24-hours post-exercise in a mixed cohort of 56 participants after a 60-min (age range from 14 to 22, 57.1% female). swimming trial. Cardiac troponin kinetics were modeled using Bayesian mixed-effects models to estimate time to peak (TTP) and peak concentration (PC) for each isoform, while controlling for participants sex, tanner stage and average relative heart rate during the test. Exercise induced an elevation of cTnT and cTnI in 93% and 75% of the participants, respectively. Cardiac troponin T peaked earlier, at 2.9 h (CI: 2.6 - 3.2 h) post-exercise, whereas cTnI peaked later, at 4.5 h (CI: 4.2 - 4.9 h). Peak concentrations for cTnT and cTnI were 2.5 ng/L, CI: 0 - 11.2 ng/L and 2.16 ng/L, CI: 0 - 22.7 ng/L, respectively. Additionally, we did not observe a systematic effect of sex and maturational status mediating cTn responses