Effect of exercise training on cardiometabolic risk markers among sedentary, but metabolically healthy overweight or obese post-menopausal women with elevated blood pressure.

Description

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of exercise training on lipoprotein-lipids and an inflammatory profile in post-menopausal overweight/obese women. A total of 267 women from the Dose-Response to Exercise in post-menopausal Women (DREW) study were analyzed before and after a 6-month exercise training program and compared to a control group (n=82). The results from this prospective randomized exercise trial revealed that exercise training significantly increased cardiorespiratory fitness of healthy overweight/obese, post-menopausal women, but had no major impact on the cardiometabolic risk profile, probably because they were characterized by a low risk cardiometabolic profile at baseline.