What are the main characteristics of middle adulthood? Middle adulthood is the period of life that spans from the late 30s to the early 50s. This is a transitional period where people experience a great deal of change, both personally and professionally. The transition to middle adulthood can...
Prediction of physical activity level in adulthood by physical characteristics, physical performance and physical activity in adolescen- ce: an 11-year follow-up study. Eur J Appl Physiol Occup Physiol 1994;69(6):530-8.Glenmark B, Hedberg G, Jansson E. Prediction of physical activity level in...
This study prospectively addresses whether aspects of the childhood home environment (SES and parental divorce) and personality are predictive of smoking, alcohol consumption, and physical activity in middle adulthood. Subjects were 972 males and females who participated in the Terman Life-Cycle Study....
MM risk increased 17% per 5 kg/m2increase in cumulative average BMI (95% confidence interval (CI): 1.05, 1.29) and 28% per 5 kg/m2increase in young adult BMI (CI: 1.12, 1.47); adjustment for BMI change since young adulthood did not affect either...
Overman, W. H. Sex differences in early childhood, adolescence, and adulthood on cognitive tasks that rely on orbital prefrontal cortex.Brain Cogn.55, 134–147 (2004). ArticlePubMedGoogle Scholar Caspersen, C., Powell, K. & Christenson, G. Physical activity, exercise, and physical fitness: ...
The purpose of this transversal experiment is to identify the development level of physical abilities of 25 boys and 25 girls of 11-12 years old from middle school of Constanta, Romania and Johannesburg, South Africa and to see if there are significant differences regarding the physical abilities...
Study characteristics Of the fourteen studies included, five investigated early to mid-adulthood PA behaviours as an outcome [28,29,30,31,32], two explored cardiovascular disease risk factors as an outcome [33, 34], and six focussed on mental health outcomes [35,36,37,38,39,40] (Table 1...
Multivariable analyses were also repeated after excluding those who died in the first year of follow-up and after restricting the sample to those with complete co-variable data only. 3. Results 3.1. Main findings The characteristics of the 8477 participants (55.1% female; mean age 68.7 years [...
Warburton & Bredin,2017). Physical inactivity in young people often becomes a lifetime problem, as PA behavior is transferred from childhood and adolescence into adulthood (Telama et al.,2014). It is therefore important to begin encouraging children to adopt a more active lifestyle at an early...
In conclusion, this large, nationally representative study of adolescents transitioning to young adulthood found that those with a childhood physical disability are more likely to have unmet health care needs and to use last resort health care, compared to their peers without disabilities. In the ...