Blood Pressure Drugs maintain muscle strength
...e blood pressure could help to keep elderly people fitter for longer by slowing the physical decline that accompanies age.// ACE inhibitors prevent high blood pressure by blocking an enzyme that causes blood vessels to constrict. The drugs also help to preserve muscle strength in patients suffering from con...Impact Of Late Motherhood on Children
...he elderly mothers say that they are healthier and fitter than many younger women. But the clinicians say that their ageing eggs result in increased risks of chromosomal abnormalities in the offspring. The other problems added to late pregnancies are increased risk and difficulty to conceive, subsequent p...Fitness and Childhood IQ Indicators of Cognitive Ability in Old Age
...eople starting out with the same IQ at age 11, the fitter person at age 79 will, on average, have better cog...intervention programs aimed at making older people fitter are good candidates to improve cognitive aging. Source-Newswis SRM......eople starting out with the same IQ at age 11, the fitter person at age 79 will, on average, have better cognitive function." GYT...Study Explains How Costly Traits Evolve
... natural populations when they "hitch a ride" with fitter genes that are being favored by natural selection. Conversely, the theory of kin selection suggests that costly traits can be favored if they lead to benefits for relatives of the bearer, who also carry the gene. "Animal traits are not always in...Pedometers – A Fitness Barometer, Soon Going to Be Child’s Ply
... for pedometers has led to whole families becoming fitter as children have been so eager to improve their step count they have persuaded their parents to do things like go walking with them, or join an exercise club.’ Surely, this is going to a worthy feat- setting habits for life might just begin with th....... "There are several ways the virus could become fitter - for example by being able to infect new cells more readily, or by infected cells producing more new virus, or producing it more rapidly," he said in an e-mail interview. "The virus adaptation hypothesis requires a lot more experimental investigat...