scholarly journals Perception attitude and exercise compliance among menopausal females

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 3965
Author(s):  
Jyoti Parle ◽  
Reema Parmar ◽  
Lubna Khan
Keyword(s):  
Postmenopausal Woman ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
General Increase ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Oestrogen Deficiency ◽  
Reproductive Life ◽  
Exercise Compliance ◽  
Positive Life Event

Background: Menopause is perhaps the most striking event occurring during the middle age in women and represents the end of woman's reproductive life. With the general increase in life expectancy, many women are likely to live for more than 20 years after menopause, spending about one quarter of their lives or more in a state of oestrogen deficiency. Owing to lack of oestrogen woman may experience decrease physical and mental wellbeing that’s why postmenopausal woman can be considered a risk population. There is a lack of data to find the compliance and attitude towards exercise among menopausal females in India.Methods: A questionnaire-based survey was conducted among sample size of 150 menopausal females. Self-made questionnaire was the outcome measure.Results: 21% consider menopause is associated with changes in the body.1 % perceived all the symptoms to be associated with menopause.30% perceived that none are associated with menopause. Perception was seen to be positive overall.36% of uneducated females do not consider exercise at all important.51% of educated females consider it important. Only 61% exercise on regular basis.Conclusions: Most females perceive menopause as a positive life event. Exercise was considered somewhat important by menopausal females; however exercise compliance was poor. 

scholarly journals Co-relation of functional mobility with anxiety in traumatic below knee amputees

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 4013-4018
Author(s):  
Lavanya R Ayyer ◽  
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Asmita C Moharkar ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Upper Limb ◽  
Lower Limb ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The Body ◽  
Functional Mobility ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Limb Amputation ◽  
Surgical Removal ◽  
Institutional Ethics ◽  
Restricted Mobility

Background: Amputation is defined as the surgical removal of one or more parts of the body. It causes great stress to the physical and mental wellbeing of an individual. The incidence of lower limb amputation is greater as compared to upper limb amputation. Also lower limb amputees experience more restricted mobility than upper limb amputee patients. Rehabilitation is an important to the recovery of an amputee. In cases of planned amputation, rehabilitation starts before the surgery. It involves physiotherapy, occupational therapy and recreational training. There is little to no studies on the co-relation of anxiety with functional mobility in amputees. This study focusses on the same. Context and purpose: Amputation causes restricted mobility and decreased quality of life. A study on the relation between anxiety and mobility will indicate a different outlook of a holistic approach while treating mobility issues in below knee amputees. Materials and methods: This is a one group co-relational study design. Study was conducted after taking approval from the institutional ethics committee and all the subjects gave their written informed consent. The study was conducted at Yashwantrao Chavan Memorial Hospital, Pune. Result: Statistical analysis of the data was done using the Pearson’s co-relation co-efficient and a co-relation was found between anxiety and functional mobility in below knee amputee patients. Conclusion: There is a co-relation between functional mobility and anxiety. Patients with anxiety showed a reduced performance on the functional mobility scale than the patients without anxiety. KEY WORDS: Amputation, Anxiety, below knee amputation, functional mobility, rehabilitation.

scholarly journals The Interconnections Between Somatic and Ovarian Aging in Murine Models

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augusto Schneider ◽  
Tatiana D Saccon ◽  
Driele N Garcia ◽  
Bianka M Zanini ◽  
José V V Isola ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Age ◽  
Cellular Aging ◽  
The Body ◽  
Murine Models ◽  
Primordial Follicles ◽  
Ovarian Aging ◽  
Overwhelming Evidence ◽  
Theory Of Aging ◽  
Mammalian Female ◽  
Systemic Health

Abstract The mammalian female is born with a limited ovarian reserve of primordial follicles. These primordial follicles are slowly activated throughout the reproductive lifecycle, thereby determining lifecycle length. Once primordial follicles are exhausted, women undergo menopause, which is associated with several metabolic perturbations and a higher mortality risk. Long before exhaustion of the reserve, females experience severe declines in fertility and health. As such, significant efforts have been made to unravel the mechanisms that promote ovarian aging and insufficiency. In this review, we explain how long-living murine models can provide insights in the regulation of ovarian aging. There is now overwhelming evidence that most life-span–extending strategies, and long-living mutant models simultaneously delay ovarian aging. Therefore, it appears that the same mechanisms that regulate somatic aging may also be modulating ovarian aging and germ cell exhaustion. We explore several potential contributing mechanisms including insulin resistance, inflammation, and DNA damage—all of which are hallmarks of cellular aging throughout the body including the ovary. These findings are in alignment with the disposable soma theory of aging, which dictates a trade-off between growth, reproduction, and DNA repair. Therefore, delaying ovarian aging will not only increase the fertility window of middle age females, but may also actively prevent menopausal-related decline in systemic health parameters, compressing the period of morbidity in mid-to-late life in females.

Improving Positive Life Event Predictions through Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 1034-1041
Author(s):  
Iony D. Ezawa ◽  
Lizabeth A. Goldstein ◽  
Daniel R. Strunk
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Behavioral Therapy ◽  
Cognitive Behavioral ◽  
Life Event ◽  
Positive Life Event

scholarly journals AYURVEDA FOR PREGNANT WOMEN DURING COVID-19 ERA – A REVIEW

2021 ◽  
pp. 221-223
Author(s):  
Dr. Supriya B ◽  
Dr. Savita S. Patil
Keyword(s):  
Pregnant Women ◽  
Specific Activity ◽  
Respiratory Infections ◽  
Virus Disease ◽  
The Body ◽  
Safe Motherhood ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dietary Regimen ◽  
Increased Risk

The Novel corona virus disease (COVID-19) is highly communicable viral infection caused by SARS-CoV 2. WHO mentions that pregnant women or recently pregnant women seem to have an increased risk of developing severe COVID-19. Due to physiological changes in the body and immune system, pregnant women can be badly affected by respiratory infections. It is therefore important that they take precautions to protect themselves against COVID-19. Overall, 10% of pregnant women suffered from COVID-19. Ayurveda mentions Garbhini paricharya (antenatal care of the pregnant) which recommends ahara (dietary regimen) and vihara (specific activity for physical, emotional and mental wellbeing) that is required for the safe motherhood and healthy progeny. Here is an attempt to understand how Garbhini paricharya helps in preventing corona. KEY WORDS: Garbhini paricharya, COVID-19, Pregnancy

scholarly journals Epigenetic Control of Temperature-Dependent Female Reproductive Life History Trade-Offs in Seed Beetles, Callosobruchus maculatus

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Anne McCaw ◽  
Aoife M Leonard ◽  
Tyler J Stevenson ◽  
Lesley T Lancaster
Keyword(s):  
Dna Methylation ◽  
Life History ◽  
Callosobruchus Maculatus ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
The Body ◽  
Temperature Dependent ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Reproductive Life ◽  
Seed Beetles ◽  
Reproductive Life History

Many species are threatened by climate change and must rapidly respond to survive changing environments. Epigenetic modifications, such as DNA methylation, can facilitate plastic responses by regulating gene expression in response to environmental cues. Understanding epigenetic responses is therefore essential for predicting species’ ability to rapidly adapt in the context of global environmental change. Here, we investigated the functional significance of DNA methylation on temperature-dependent life history in seed beetles, Callosobruchus maculatus. We assessed changes in DNA methyltransferase (Dnmt1 and Dnmt2) expression levels under ambient conditions and thermal stress, and reproductive performance following artificially-induced epimutation via 3-aminobenzamide (3AB) and Zebularine (Zeb), at a range of ambient and warmer temperatures over two generations. We found that Dnmt1 and Dnmt2 were greatly expressed in females, throughout the body, and exhibited temperature-dependence; in contrast, Dnmt expression was minimal in males. Epimutation led to shifts in female reproductive life history trade-off allocation, and differentially altered thermal optima of fecundity and offspring viability. This study revealed the optimal allocation strategy among these fitness components is temperature-dependent, and trade-offs become increasingly difficult to resolve epigenetically under more extreme warming. Results suggest that epigenetic mechanisms are strongly implicated in, and perhaps limiting of, invertebrate life history responses to temperature change. Further investigation will reveal targeted DNA methylation patterns and specific loci associated with temperature-dependent life history trade-offs in seed beetles and other invertebrates.

scholarly journals Shaping the Body Politic: Mass Media Fat-Shaming Affects Implicit Anti-Fat Attitudes

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (11) ◽  
pp. 1580-1589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Ravary ◽  
Mark W. Baldwin ◽  
Jennifer A. Bartz
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Association Test ◽  
Body Politic ◽  
The Body ◽  
Implicit Association ◽  
General Increase ◽  
Cultural Phenomenon ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
The Media ◽  
Human Psyche ◽  
Over Time

The human psyche is profoundly shaped by its cultural milieu; however, few studies have examined the dynamics of cultural influence in everyday life, especially when it comes to shaping people’s automatic, implicit attitudes. In this quasi-experimental field study, we investigated the effect of transient, but salient, cultural messages—the pop-cultural phenomenon of celebrity “fat-shaming”—on implicit anti-fat attitudes in the population. Adopting the “copycat suicide” methodology, we identified 20 fat-shaming events in the media; next, we obtained data from Project Implicit of participants who had completed the Weight Implicit Association Test from 2004 to 2015. As predicted, fat-shaming led to a spike in women’s (N=93,239) implicit anti-fat attitudes, with events of greater notoriety producing greater spikes. We also observed a general increase in implicit anti-fat attitudes over time. Although these passing comments may appear harmless, we show that feedback at the cultural level can be registered by the “body politic.”

The Beginnings of the King's Council

1905 ◽  
Vol 19 ◽  
pp. 27-59
Author(s):  
James F. Baldwin
Keyword(s):  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Middle Age ◽  
The Body ◽  
Privy Council ◽  
Supreme Council ◽  
Literary Sources ◽  
The Government ◽  
Official Records

Writers of the thirteenth century observed the formation of a new power in the government. This they variously called ‘the king' familiar council’, ‘the supreme council’, ‘the secret council,’ ‘the noble and prudent council’. It later became known as ‘the continual’ or ‘the ordinary council’, and finally ‘the privy council’. These adjectives and others applied to the council and councillors serve very well to designate the body of which we speak. It is to be noted, however, that it is in chronicles and other literary sources that such terms are at first to be found. The stricter and more conservative ofKcial language recognised only the king's council, or simply the council Ambiguous as they are, these continued to be the usual terms for almost the whole of the middle age, though in the fourteenth century the more popular and descriptive terms found a place in the official records.

scholarly journals An Efficient Neural Network Model for the Identification of Stress using Electrocardiogram

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (2S6) ◽  
pp. 502-507
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Heart Rate ◽  
Network Model ◽  
Neural Network Model ◽  
Back Propagation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Mental Wellbeing ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Back Propagation Algorithm ◽  
Suggested Technique

People are facing numerous pressures in their daily routine in the latest society. Stress has traditionally has been described as action from a calm state to an emotional state in order to preserve the integrity of organism. Stress observation is very important for mental wellbeing and early identification of stress related disorders. Stress is to learn the body response in stressful state, whenever the body reaction is activated that means the heart rate and blood pressure will raise and several hormones enter our bloodshed. These hormones and bodily changes may increases our performances to a particular extent. Everyone's response to stress is discreet, and not all stress is bad. Someone may discover a significant condition of pressure to be enjoyable, while others may find it stressful. However, individuals also have different stress symptoms. stress area can also recognize using frequency and excitation of a speech signal, Since the biomedical signals are consistently related to central nervous system, therefore physiological parameters are the best way to understand the human emotions. The present work is focused on stress identification from Electrocardiogram using ECG physiologic net database, then entire environment of ECG signal characteristics i.e. mean heart rate variability (HRV), standard deviation of all R-R interval (SDNN), square root mean of the sum of the square difference between R-R interval (RMSSD) and number of consecutive R-R interval variations greater than 50ms (NN50), these features are extracted using Pan-Tompkins algorithm, then it is trained and validated to machine learning using back-propagation algorithm in neural network model. With the help of these features (mean HRV, SDNN, RMSSD and NN50), the study can be analyzed whether a person is under stress or not. Thus how the suggested technique provides the subjective information which helps the doctor to find out whether the person is under stress or not.

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