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Aerobic exercise has beneficial impact on atherogenic index of plasma in sedentary overweigh and obese women

Publication at First Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine in Hradec Králové |
2011

Abstract

Physical exercise (PE) decreased total body fat and even weight. Thirty seven sedentary, non-diabetic women (BMI median 34.8) were tested by 60 min supervised trainings, intensity at 65% of VO2max, modified by the clamp heart rate test.

Median of total training hours was 34 during 115 days (median). Statistically significant differences at start and the end of PE (p{0.05): Mass -3.6 (kg), BMI -1.7 (kg/m2), Waist -2.5 (cm), Fat% -2.5, VO2max 2.92 (L.min-1kg-1).

Correlation coefficients, Pearson's between Gaussian distributed variables and Spearman's (non-Gaussian distributed) statistically significant (p{0.05): IA and BMI, IA and Mass, IA and Waist, IA and Fat%, LDL and BMI, LDL and Mass, LDL and Fat%, LDL and Waist, IA and VO2max, LDL_C and VO2max. PE improves lipid profile towards production of antiatherogenic particles more likely due to changes in anthropometric parameters than in improvement of physical fitness.