Prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains one of the largest public health
challenges of our time. Identifying individuals at increased cardiovascular risk at an …

Vascular aging represents a collection of structural and functional changes in a blood vessel
with advancing age, including increased stiffness, vascular wall remodeling, loss of …

Background The social restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic had a great
impact on the routine of children and adolescents, with important consequences such as …

Objective To investigate the effects of a school-based once-a-week sports program on
physical fitness, physical activity, and cardiometabolic health in children and adolescents …

Aortic blood pressure (aoBP) waveform-derived indexes could provide valuable (prognostic)
information over and above cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs). To obtain aoBP waveform …

Background The evidence on the associations of cardiorespiratory fitness, body adiposity
and sports participation with arterial stiffness in children and adolescents with chronic …

OBJECTIVES: To investigate predictors and propose reference equations for the
augmentation index normalized to 75 bpm heart rate (AIx@ 75) in healthy children and …

Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide,
and the atherosclerotic process begins in childhood. Prevention or containment of risk …

Background/Objective Type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM1) presents important risk factors for
cardiovascular events. Objective To compare the components of the aortic pulse wave …

Purpose: To investigate the effects of high-intensity interval training (HIT) on physical fitness
and cardiometabolic health in youth with physical disabilities. Methods: For this quasi …