Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of low intensity and moderate intensity exercise programs on blood pressure, body composition, and serum lipids in middle-aged and older female hypertensives. The number of subjects in low intensity exercise group and moderate intensity exercise group were 7 and. 11, respectively. The age of the subjects were between 50 and 70 years old and systolic blood pressure were in the range of 140∼160mmHg. Low intensity exercise program(5days/week) was consisted of swimming, badminton, folk dance, gate ball, etc for 60 minutes on monday, wednesday, friday and walking for 30 minutes on tuesday, thursday at the exercise intensity of 50%HRR(heart rate reserve). Moderate intensity exercise program was consisted of 10 minutes of warming up exercise, 30 minutes of aerobic exercise at 50-70%HRR, 15 minutes of resistance exercise, and 5 minutes of cooling down. Frequency of the exercise was 4 times per week. Two-way ANOVA with repeated measure was used to analyze the data and the results were as follows : 1. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure of low intensity exercise group decreased (12.6mmHg, 5.2mmHg) significantly after exercise program(p.05). In moderate intensity exercise group, systolic and diastolic blood pressure decreased(5.2mmHg, 1.6mmHg) after exercise program but it was not statistically significant. 2. Percent body fat was significantly changed after exercise program in both groups, with larger changes in moderate intensity group(4.1% vs 0.7%). 3. Total cholesterol, high density lipids cholesterol, low density lipids cholesterol, triglycerides showed trends of positive changes in both groups after exercise program but it was not statistically significant.
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