Effect of chronic training on cardiovascular risk factor in obese men

Abstract

Obese individuals are more susceptible to develop cardiovascular diseases resulting from the excessive amount of adipose tissue. This study was aimed to determine effects of exercise training on some cardiovascular risk factors in obese or overweight men. For this purpose, twenty healthy adult obese or overweight men matched for age 35.1 ± 2.8 years and BMI 32.5 ± 1.11 kg/m2 was selected to participate in this study by accessible sampling. Then they selected to exercise (Aerobic training, 3 months/3 times weekly) and control group. Blood samples were collected prior and at the end of exercise program in order to measurement C-reactive protein (CRP), Total cholesterol (TC) and low density lipoprotein (LDL) in two groups. Anthropometrical indexes were also measured before and after exercise program. No significant differences were found in all cardiovascular risk factors by exercise program with compared to baseline (p ≥ 0.05). These findings suggest that exercise training does not independently affect the fasting serum CRP and lipid profile markers in healthy obese or overweight men. Further studies are necessary to elucidate the inflammatory property of exercise training in obese men.