Journal of Exercise Science & Physiotherapy

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Authors: Kulandaivelan, S.; & Yamini

Objective: Aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of hypertension and identify factors (sex, age, BMI, smoking, alcohol consumption, diet (veg vs non-veg), sweet use, ghee use, family history of hypertension, type of work (teaching vs non-teaching)) that determine hypertension among university employees. Methodology: The present study was a cross sectional survey done on a random sample of 100 out of 671 employees (male 71, females 29) aged 18 or above. Determinants data was collected on a standard performa by a trained physiotherapist who also recorded the bp on each subject through recommended procedure. Set point bp for hypertension was 130/85 mmhg for sbp and dbp respectively. Data was analysed by ibm spss (21.0 version) software. Results: Males had higher prevalence than females. Prevalence ofhypertension increased with age and bmi. Smoking, alcohol consumption, family history of hypertension, type of work, qualification significantly influenced the occurrence of hypertension among employees. Multiple regression analysis identified qualification, smoking, bmi factors along with constant predicts 79% variability in SBP hypertension. Sex, smoking, bmi factors along with constant predicts 72% variability in DBP hypertension. Conclusion: Prevalence of hypertension among university employees was 37%, 41% for sbp, dbp cut-off respectively.higher prevalence is associated with advancing age, higher bmi and lower education. Analysis also showed smoking, alcohol consumption, family history and type of work are risk factors for hypertension in university employees. Finally smoking, BMI along with either qualification or sex explains more than 70% variability in both sbp and dbp hypertension.

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Authors: Yadav, Krishna.

Introduction: Many athletes who perform well during training or practice can suffer from performance anxiety on game day. Purpose of the Study: The purpose of the study was to find out the correlation between Anxiety and Mental skill among University male volleyball players. Methodology: A total of 15 university Volleyball male players were selected as subjects from different colleges affiliated to Karnatak University, Dharwad St: Karnataka, The ages of players were between 20 to 25 years. All the subjects completed Ottawa and SCAT questionnaire for measuring their mental skill and competitive anxiety. Results:‘t’ -test was employed to evaluate the SCAT questionnaire and Pearson correlations method was used to assess the correlation between anxiety and mental skill. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between mental skill and competitive anxiety in university volleyball male players (p<0.05). Conclusion: The present study findings shows that it is important that sportsmen are classified according to the type of sport & type of event in order to judge the differences between different games and to identify methods by which they can achieve high levels of performance in their sports. The psychological training needs to be provided by the coaches along with the physical training and under psychological training, it is imperative that players are trained how to face stressful situations occurring during the competitions

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Authors: Randhawa, Ramanpreet & Sidhu, Sharda

Background: Metabolic Syndrome (MS) is one of the major cause of morbidity and mortality across the globe. Therefore, this study was aimed to assess the prevalence of MS and its components using three international diagnostic criteria in the pre- and postmenopausal rural females of Amritsar (Punjab). Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted among 300 rural females (186 premenopausal and 114 postmenopausal) of Amritsar (Punjab) during the period from June 2013 to June 2014. The age range of females was 25-55 years. WC and blood pressure of each participant was also measured. Fasting blood samples were analysed to estimate TC, TGL, HDL-C and FBG. LDL-C and VLDL-C were also calculated. The prevalence of MS was assessed using three international criteria ATP-III, IDF and mATP-III, respectively. For data analysis mean and standard deviation were calculated. Further Student’s t-test, chi-square test and kappa statistic were also applied. Results: The postmenopausal women had significantly higher values of WC, SBP and DBP. In context to lipid profile variables, the values were again significantly higher among postmenopausal females except LDL-C. The prevalence of MS was 21.66 %, 24.33% and 25.66 % using ATP-III, IDF and mATP-III criterion, respectively. The postmenopausal females were observed to have significantly higher prevalence of MS. The degree of agreement (kappa statistic) was more (0.87) between mATP-III and IDF criteria as compared to between ATP-III and IDF (0.85) and between mATP-III and ATP-III (0.76) which shows that mATP-III has more concordance with IDF and less with ATP-III . Among 300 rural females, 18.3% (55) females were screened positive for MS by all the three criteria. The most prevalent component of MS was reduced levels of HDL-C whereas the least common was elevated levels of FBG. Conclusion: MS is quite prevalent in rural women of Amritsar using all the three criteria.

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Authors: Kumar, Ashok; Kumar , Vishal; and Kaur², Narinder

Aim: To study the audio and visual response time of type 2 diabetics and non-diabetics. Materials & Method: Thirty type 2 diabetics (age 49±7 years) and thirty non- diabetics (45±5 years) males volunteered to participate in this study as subjects. Response Analyzer was used to measure the audio and visual response times. Result: Audio-1 (0.960 ± 0.34ms), Audio-2 (1.043±0.79ms), Audio-3 (1.082±0.86ms), Audio- 4 (0.986±0.46ms) and combined auditory response time (1.048±0.57ms) of type 2 diabetics. Audio-1, Audio-2, Audio-3, Audio-4 and combined auditory response time of non-diabetics was 0.841±0.23ms, 0.782±0.35ms, 0.762±0.40ms, 0.793±0.25ms and 0.797±0.17ms respectively. Visual-1 (0.736±0.28ms), Visual-2 (0.653± 0.27ms), Visual-3 (0.649 ± 0.34ms), Visual-4 (0.654± 0.21ms) and combined visual response times (0.679± 0.25ms) of type 2 diabetics and Visual-1, Visual- 2, Visual- 3, Visual-4 and combined visual response time of nondiabetics was 0.618 ± 0.14ms, 0.571 ± 0.07ms, 0.604 ± 0.10ms, 0.631 ± 0.14ms, and 0.604 ± 0.07ms respectively. The absolute and percent difference between various audio and visual response time of type 2 diabetic and non-diabetics were statistical significant. Conclusion: It was concluded that type 2 diabetics respond slowly to the various audio and visual stimuli as compared to non-diabetics. Thus, auditory and visual response time can be considered as an ideal tool for measuring audio-visual sensory motor association in type 2 diabetics and to highlight the importance of auditory and visual response time testing in routine examination of type 2 diabetics. We can manage the complications of neuropathy in type 2 diabetics which may lead to morbidity in them.