Taekwondo training reduces blood catecholamine levels and arterial stiffness in postmenopausal women with stage-2 hypertension: randomized clinical trial

Effects of Olympic Combat Sports on Older Adults’ Health Status: A Systematic Review

“…Every study obtained 60% or more of the scale's total score (15 points), as can be observed in Table 1. One study obtained a score of 9/15 [46], two obtained 10/15 [42,45], one obtained 11/15 [37], four obtained 12/15 [41,44,47,48], three obtained 13/15 [38,40,43], and one obtained 14/15 [39].…”

“…Twentytwo studies were excluded because they were not OCS interventions; twelve because the mean age of the sample was less than 60 years of age; thirteen because they did not correspond to the research object, i.e., they were not centered on the health outcomes of older adults; three because the full texts were inaccessible; five because they were not randomised-controlled trials; and four because they were reviews or case studies. After this process, the total number of studies that met the selection criteria was equal to twelve [37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48].…”

“…Five studies were developed in Germany [42,43,[46][47][48], two in Italy [38,39], two in South Korea [37,44], one in the United States of America [40], one in China [41], and one in Brazil [45]. As to the practiced OCS modality, two were interventions through boxing [40,41], two through judo [38,39], six through karate [42,43,[45][46][47][48], and two through taekwondo [37,44]. No research that used fencing or wrestling as an intervention modality for older adults was found.…”

“…One study had 20 participants [44], five had 30 to 40 [37][38][39][40]45], three had 40 to 70 [42,43,46], and three had more than 80 participants; specifically, Witte, Kropf [48] had 89, Witte, Emmermacher [47] had 90, and Hu, Guo [41] had 198. In total, the sample contained 735 older adults (392 females and 343 males) with a mean age of 69.6 years.…”

Effects of a Combination of Peptide Extracts From Reindeer Endocrine Glands (Rangifer Tarandus) on the Catholaminergic Regulation of the Estral Function in Rats

“…Надосадочную жидкость в объеме 20 мкл подвергали хроматографическому разделению. шо согласуются с литературными данными, согласно которым доказано: как возраст сам по себе, так и менопауза могут повышать уровень катехоламинов в крови [16], что, в свою очередь, приводит к ослаблению активности вегетативной нервной системы [10].…”