Aproximadamente el 50% de las muertes y lesiones vinculadas con accidentes de tránsito están asociadas al consumo de alcohol. Los modelos publicitarios preventivos que destacan el riesgo de muerte asociado a conductas de ...

Se exponen evidencias de validez y confiabilidad del Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40) en Costa Rica. En el Estudio 1 se adaptó el EAT-40 al léxico costarricense y se aplicó a 594 adolescentes. Se obtuvo un alfa de Cronbach ...

Costa Rica has one of the highest life expectancies in America, even higher than the United States. Studies addressing health and fitness in Latin American urban and rural older adults are scarce. PURPOSE: The purpose ...

Hoy en día, en el mundo entero, y como una consecuencia de la inserción de las Tecnologías de la Información y la Comunicación (TIC) en la sociedad, hay una tendencia cada vez mayor por intentar introducir la tecnología ...

Objective There is evidence that cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) protects against age-related declines in processing speed (PS), but studies investigating older adults living in low and middle-income countries are lacking. ...

Objective: Central Americans have a cardiovascular disease (CVD) health advantage, as they are half as likely to carry CVD as European Americans, despite having an equivalent degree of vascular risk factors (VRFs). We ...

Introduction. Aging decreases aerobic capacity as determined by direct maximal tests (Hassel et al. 2015). There are indirect methods to assess aerobic capacity such as the 6-min walking test (6MWT). Some equations to ...