A study of patients with metastatic lung cancer by researchers based in Brazil and the United States has found that their performance in simple physical tests such as sitting down, standing and ...

Tsukuba, Japan—Decline in physical performance is a major factor in the onset of the need for long-term care among older adults. In Japan, physical performance tests are being promoted by local ...

Numerous studies examine a single cognitive or physical performance measure and how it links to brain health in older adults, such as the relationship between gait speed and memory. Yet cognition and ...

Correspondence to Sergio Núñez de Arenas-Arroyo, Health and Social Research Center, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha - Campus de Cuenca, Cuenca, 16002, Spain; Sergio.NunezdeArenas{at}uclm.es ...

The Department of Defense (DoD) considers physical fitness an important component of the ''general health and well-being" and readiness of military troops (DoDD 1308.1, 1981) and defines physical ...