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Physiological serum uric acid concentrations correlate with arterial stiffness in a sex-dependent manner (open access).

Here, even in the physiological concentration range, uric acid was found to be associated with arterial pulse wave velocity, a measure of arterial stiffness, an association more pronounced in women than in men.

Sex-differences in vascular adaptations to exercise training within different intensity domains (open access).

- These sex-related associations between changes in cardiorespiratory fitness and peripheral vascular adaptations were more evident in response to HIIT compared to other exercise training intensities.

- Changes in cardiorespiratory fitness were positively associated with resting vascular conductance, femoral artery diameter, and indexes of reactive hyperemia while negatively associated with flow-mediated dilation in females.

- Exercise training elicited improvements in flow-mediated dilation in females, but not in males.

- In this study, HIIT was associated with greater changes in resting hemodynamics compared to moderate.

- This study assessed domain-specific hemodynamic and lower limb vascular adaptations in seventy healthy sedentary adults (35 females and 35 males) that underwent 6 weeks of endurance exercise training within five intensity domains: . * Moderate.* Lower heavy intensity.* Upper.

This one indicates that peripheral vascular adaptations associated with changes in cardiorespiratory fitness are impacted by sex and the exercise intensity domain.

Resistance training in pregnancy: systematic review and meta-analysis of pregnancy, delivery, fetal and pelvic floor outcomes and call to action.

- Analysis indicated that resistance training as a sole intervention or a component of a multicomponent exercise programme can have health-promoting benefits during pregnancy, including a reduced risk for perinatal mood disorders (−52%), macrosomia (−33%) developing gestational.

There were 45 randomised controlled trials, 3 non-randomised interventions and 2 observational studies.

- Overall, 50 studies (47 619 participants) from 14 countries were included in this review.

- This systematic review aimed to evaluate the influence of resistance training as a sole intervention or as part of a multicomponent exercise programme on pregnancy, delivery, fetal and pelvic floor outcomes.

This systematic review and meta-analysis finds that resistance training, either alone or as part of a multicomponent intervention, is likely to have consequential health benefits during pregnancy.

Bidirectional associations of Physical Activity and Cognitive Function in Midlife Adults: A Longitudinal Analysis across 26 years follow-up (open access).

- "These results reveal an association between PA and cognition as far back as middle age, though this relationship appears to differ by cognitive domain, with a stronger reverse relationship, particularly verbal memory in females, and a more reciprocal relationship between PA.

In the inverse direction, greater prior physical activity levels were positively associated with processing speed.

For males, a 1-SD processing speed was weakly associated with higher physical activity engagement at the next wave.