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Appl Ergon 2021 Feb 27;94:103395. Epub 2021 Feb 27.

US Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM), 10 General Greene Avenue, Natick, MA, 01760, USA. Electronic address:

Introduction: Military leaders must understand how modern military equipment loads affect trade-offs between movement speed and physiological strain to optimize pacing strategies.

Purpose: To evaluate the effects of load carried in a recently developed military backpack on the walking speed and cardiometabolic responses of dismounted warfighters.

Methods: Fifteen soldiers (1 woman, 14 men; age, 22 ± 2 years; height, 173 ± 7 cm; body mass (BM), 73 ± 10 kg) completed incremental walking tests with four external load conditions (0, 22, 44, or 66% BM) using the US Army's newest backpack: the Modular Lightweight Load-Carrying Equipment 4000 (MOLLE 4000). Read More

Clin Nutr ESPEN 2021 Feb 1;41:94-103. Epub 2020 Dec 1.

Department of Nutrition and Health, Federal University of Viçosa (UFV), Viçosa, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Electronic address:

Objective: To evaluate the scientific evidences on the prevalence, diagnostic criteria, and factors related to sarcopenic obesity (SO) in Brazilian older adults.

Methods: this systematic review was based on searches of the databases PubMed, Science Direct, Excerpta Medica Database (Embase), Web of Science, Scientific Electronic Library Online (SciELO), and Scopus. The systematic review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA). Read More

Radiology 2021 02 22;298(2):384-392. Epub 2020 Dec 22.

From the Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center+ (MUMC+), P. Debyelaan 25, 6229 HX Maastricht, the Netherlands (L.W.M.V., J.F.A.J., S.K., M.P.J.v.B., J.J.A.d.J., W.H.B.); MHeNs School for Mental Health and Neuroscience (L.W.M.V., J.F.A.J., S.K., M.P.J.v.B., J.J.A.d.J., M.T.S., W.H.B.), Department of Internal Medicine (T.T.v.S., C.D.A.S., N.C.S., P.C.D., A.A.K., M.T.S.), School for Cardiovascular Disease (CARIM) (L.W.M.V., T.T.v.S., C.D.A.S., N.C.S., P.C.D., A.A.K., M.T.S., W.H.B.), Care and Public Health Institute (CAPHRI) (N.C.S.), School of Nutrition and Translational Research in Metabolism (NUTRIM) (A.W., M.T.S.), and Department of Complex Genetics & Epidemiology (A.W.), Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands; and Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (J.F.A.J.).

Background Lesions of cerebral small vessel disease, such as white matter hyperintensities (WMHs) in individuals with cardiometabolic risk factors, interfere with the trajectories of the white matter and eventually contribute to cognitive decline. However, there is no consensus yet about the precise underlying topological mechanism. Purpose To examine whether WMH and cognitive function are associated and whether any such association is mediated or explained by structural connectivity measures in an adult population. Read More

Nutr Hosp 2021 Feb;38(1):36-42

Faculdade de Medicina. Universidade Federal da Bahia.

Introduction: Introduction: human growth is the result of an interaction between genetic, hormonal, nutritional, and environmental factors. It is not yet fully understood what is predominant and decisive in determining an individual's weight and height. Objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the cardiometabolic profile of exclusively breastfed children born small for gestational age (SGA). Read More

Nat Hum Behav 2021 01 16;5(1):123-145. Epub 2020 Nov 16.

Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.

We sought to determine which facets of sleep neurophysiology were most strongly linked to cognitive performance in 3,819 older adults from two independent cohorts, using whole-night electroencephalography. From over 150 objective sleep metrics, we identified 23 that predicted cognitive performance, and processing speed in particular, with effects that were broadly independent of gross changes in sleep quality and quantity. These metrics included rapid eye movement duration, features of the electroencephalography power spectra derived from multivariate analysis, and spindle and slow oscillation morphology and coupling. Read More