Laboratoire d’Investigations sur les Mécanismes et Prédicteurs de liens entre Activités physiques, autres Comportements et Trajectoires de Santé
The first Saturday in June is “National Health and Fitness Day” across Canada. For the members of the IMPACTS Research Laboratory, who study the predictors and mechanisms linking physical activity to health trajectories, we feel it is important to put into practice what our research reveals. On a day-to-day basis, we try to foster a work environment that promotes healthy lifestyle habits as a whole… and we succeed thanks to a great team!
Our sincere congratulations to IMPACTS Lab colleagues Myles O’Brien, Shirko Ahmadi and Said Mekari, and their invaluable collaborators from Vitalité Health Network – Réseau de Santé Vitalité, Mathieu Dumont, Monique Dufour Doiron and Luc Cormier, on obtaining a DUO 2024-2026 grant.
Published in the American Journal of Hypertension, this article from Prof Myles O’Brien and colleagues shows the harmful effects of prolonged sitting on blood pressure variability.
Read in the Canadian Medical Education Journal an article by Prof Myles O’Brien on a medical student-led community program. If you would like to know more about current projects or would like to collaborate with Dr. O’Brien, please contact him at Myles.OBrien@USherbrooke.ca To read the article: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/cmej/article/view/77055
The IMPACTS Lab was at the APES+ Conference hosted by St. Francis Xavier University in N.S. to present research studies in progress:
👉 Effect of a community-based physical activity program on the physical and cognitive health of healthy francophone seniors in New Brunswick by Pierre FAIVRE
👉 Adolescent physical activity and young adult health: a systematic review by Pierre Philippe Wilson REGISTE
Photo: Pierre Faivre and Pierre Philippe Wilson Registe, Ph.D. students in health sciences at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences – Université de Sherbrooke, and Shirko Ahmadi, Ph.D. research professional with the Lab IMPACTS.