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QJM Advance Access published online on July 1, 2009
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© The Author 2009. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Physicians. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Resistance exercise plus to aerobic activities is associated with better lipids’ profile among healthy individuals: the ATTICA study

C. Pitsavos1, D.B. Panagiotakos2, K.D. Tambalis2, C. Chrysohoou1, L.S. Sidossis2, J. Skoumas1 and C. Stefanadis1

From the 1First Cardiology Clinic, School of Medicine, University of Athens and 2Department of Nutrition Science-Dietetics, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece

Address correspondence to Demosthenes B. Panagiotakos, 46 Paleon Polemiston St. Glyfada, Attica, 166 74, Greece. email: d.b.panagiotakos{at}usa.net

Received 5 March 2009 and in revised form 1 June 2009


  Abstract

Background: The influence of different types of exercise on risk factors for cardiovascular diseases has rarely been investigated. The aim of the present work was to evaluate the effect of adding resistance exercise to aerobic activities on lipid–lipoprotein profile, in a representative sample of men and women from the province of Attica, Greece.

Methods: We randomly enrolled 1514 and 1528 healthy men and women, respectively, stratified by city, age and gender distribution. Participants were classified as inactive (INA), sufficiently active (SA) and highly active for either aerobic activities (HAA) alone or a combination of aerobic plus resistance exercise (HAC). The main outcome measures are lipid–lipoprotein profile [total, high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, triglycerides, apolipoprotein-A1, apolipoprotein-B] and anthropometric indices.

Results: From those participating in aerobic activities, 480 (31.7%) men and 502 (32.9%) women were classified as SA, 100 men (6.6%) and 93 women (6.1%) as HAA and 90 men (5.9%) and 49 women (3.2%) as HAC. After various adjustments were made, men from the HAC group had an average of 23% lower plasma triacylglycerol concentration (P = 0.04) and 10% lower LDL-cholesterol (P = 0.01) when compared with the HAA group. Moreover, women from the HAC group had 13% lower LDL-cholesterol when compared with HAA group (P = 0.051).

Conclusions: These data suggest that combining aerobic and resistance-type activities may confer a better effect on lipoprotein profile in healthy individuals than aerobic activities alone.


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