INFLUENCE OF PHYSICAL EXERCISES ON OLD PEOPLE??S CARDIO-CEREBROVASCULAR SYSTEMS

Abstract

Purpose: Sports exercise are benefit to keeping fitness and to peopleís health, but how about it is to the people with cardiopathy and cerebrovascular disease. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of exercise on old peopleís cardio C cerebrovascular systems by contrast between exercise group and no exercise group. Methods: Subjects: 160 volunteers who are aged form 60 to 70 years (100males and 60 females), they are felled into two groups, one group is consisted of 80 exerciser who engaged in tennis, table tennis, jogging, swimming, Qigong etc. and the other group is consisted of 80 no exerciser. Procedure: Inquisition: all the subjects are investigated on sport event they engaged in, number of year of engaged in sport and their medical record. Medical examination: The index of examination include: body weight, blood pressure, serum cholesterol, glycoside, blood vessels on eyeground, electrocardiogram. Results: The results of investigation indicate that significant difference exists in several indexes between exercise group and no exercise group. The blood pressure, the serum cholesterol and the glycoside of exercise group are lower than of on exercise group (blood pressure, p < 0.01; serum cholesterol, p < 0.05; glycoside, p < 0.01). Medical examination show that more arteriosclerosis of eyeground blood vessels were find in on exercise group than in exercise group. The electrocardiograms show that there are 13 abnormality in exercise group, and 30 in no exercise group at rest. The investigation also shows that inappropriate exercise could make against peopleís health. Conclusions: Fitting exercise is benefit to old peopleís cardioícerebrovascular systems. It could stave the process of cardiopathy and cerebrovascular disease. Unfitting exercise could be harmful for these diseases.