Background: One of the impacts of obesity are physical and cardiovascular problems. Harvard step test and 20m shuttle run test can be used to measure cardiovascular jitness. Objective of th is research is to determine the association between body composition with cardiovascular jitness in obese children measured by Harvard step test (HST) and 20m shuttle run test (SRT). Method: Cross sectiona…
Aim To investigate whether normotensive young adults with family history of hypertension demonstrate exaggerated cardiovascular responses to both mental and physical stimuli as compared to normotensive young adults without family history of hypertension. Methods Normotensive undergraduate students of normotensive parents (n = 40) and of hypertensive father/ mother/both (n = 40), aged 20 – 30 …