Laboratoire d’Investigations sur les Mécanismes et Prédicteurs de liens entre Activités physiques, autres Comportements et Trajectoires de Santé
This 5-year NSERC Discovery Grant project brings together expertise in activity monitor engineering and experimental biology to explore interdisciplinary questions related to sex differences in blood pressure regulation during sedentary postures. This research program aims to advance current methodologies while uncovering new insights into the vascular mechanisms that regulate blood pressure among males and females.
This annual event is an opportunity for students from the universities in the region to present their research work in relation to kinesiology, and to foster collaboration within the university community of the four Atlantic provinces. The University of Prince Edward Island hosted this year’s APES + Conference.
1) Pierre FAIVRE: Role of exercise and brain physiological mechanisms in the development of executive functioning in coronary artery disease in older adults.
2) Madeline Shivgulam: Characterizing Posture in Long-Term Care & the Relation of Habitual Postures with Frailty.
3) Pierre Philippe Wilson REGISTE: Does using the same measure matter for physical activity tracking from adolescence to early adulthood?
4) IMPACTS Lab: Prof Myles O’Brien, Madeline Shivgulam, Pierre Faivre, Pierre Philippe Wilson Registe and Prof Said Mekari
5) Prof Myles O’Brien extended team: Sophie Rayner, Jocelyn Waghorn, Emily MacDonald, Sophie Inkpen, Carson Halliwell, Madeline Shivgulam.
Over the past few weeks, the MATCH research team has been sharing some of the results of its longitudinal study of young Canadians, conducted since 2011, on its social networks. This series of publications highlights the emotions and attitudes linked to body appearance and lifestyle habits. Follow us on our social networks,Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Part of the Lab IMPACTS team is taking part in the 2024 conference of the Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology (CSEP) Société canadienne de physiologie de l’exercice SCPE being held in Montreal. Pierre FAIVRE, a student in the doctoral research programme in health sciences at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences UdeS presented the results of a study conducted as part of a physical activity programme offered in the community and to elderly people. Madeline Shivgulam is a doctoral student in the Faculty of Health at Dalhousie University. Her scientific poster is based on an exhaustive literature review of sedentary lifestyles, television viewing time and the increased risk of all-cause mortality, irrespective of physical activity. They are accompanied by their respective co-directors Prof Said Mekari (Pierre is also co-directed by Prof Mathieu Belanger of the Université de Sherbrooke) and Prof Myles O’Brien (Madeline is also co-directed by Prof Olga Theou of Dalhousie University).
