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Older people with abdominal fat develop mobility problems
Publicado em 01 de setembro de 2021
Sao Paulo [Brazil], September 1 (ANI): A new study has found that the dangerous combination of weak muscles and abdominal fat can lead to a significant loss of gait speed in older people.
The findings of the study were published in the journal 'Age and Ageing'.
The study was conducted by researchers at the Federal University of Sao Carlos (UFSCar) in the state of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in partnership with colleagues at University College London (UCL) in the UK.
A slower gait is a natural [...]
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Birds that disperse more types of seed have better evolutionary chances
Publicado em 12 agosto 2021More than 70% of plant species that produce flowers depend on birds to disperse their seeds. Birds feed on fruit from a wide array of different plants, and bird-plant interactions configure a welter of complex networks. A study conducted at the University of São Paulo’s Institute of Biosciences (IB-USP) in Brazil shows that the evolutionary stability of each bird species depends on the position it occupies in these networks, increasing in step with the number and centrality of [...]ver notícia