Aerobic physical exercise improved the cognitive function of elderly males but did not modify their blood homocysteine levels

Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders Extra

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 13-24

  Antunes, Hanna Karen M ^a,b,e   De Mello, Marco Túlio ^a,b   De Aquino Lemos, Valdir ^a,b   Santos Galduróz, Ruth Ferreira ^c   Galdieri, Luciano Camargo ^d   Bueno, Orlando Francisco Amodeo ^a   Tufik, Sergio ^a   D'Almeida, Vânia ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Centro de Estudos em Psicobiologia e Exercício CEPE   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO ABC   (Brazil)

^d ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e Rua Silva Jardim 136   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aerobic training; Cognitive function; Elderly subjects; Homocysteine; Metabolic profile; Physical exercise

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HIGH DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; LIOTHYRONINE; PROSTATE SPECIFIC ANTIGEN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL; UREA;

AEROBIC EXERCISE; AGED; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; CARDIORESPIRATORY FITNESS; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDURANCE TRAINING; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LIPOPROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TRIACYLGLYCEROL BLOOD LEVEL; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84931324678     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16645464     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000369160     Document Type: Article

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