BACKGROUND: This study set out to identify the effects of recreational and endurance exercise on subclinical evidence of atherosclerosis in young adults. METHODS: Cardiovascular disease risk factors and intima-media thickness determination by B-mode ultrasonography of 150 subjects were correlated to endurance exercise, recreational exercise, and sedentary lifestyle. The subjects comprised 20- to 40-year-old men and women without cardiovascular disease. This cross-sectional, case-control study analyzed data on the laboratory parameters and information collected from a risk factor questionnaire. RESULTS: The athletes, both endurance and recreational groups, have significantly superior values with respect to physiognomy, lipid profile, and inflammatory markers in relation to the nonexercising study population (all P < 0.05). Detailed analysis showed markedly reduced values for relative body fat (relative reduction 14.3%), low-density lipoprotein (10.6%), and triglycerides (13.5%) and a 50% reduction of hs-C-reactive protein. In the univariate and multivariate comparison of athletic (n = 100) and nonathletic (n = 50) groups, exercise did not show to exert a significant influence on vascular wall parameters (for all, P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: Exercise, in recreational and endurance form, between the ages of 20 and 40 years exerts a preventive influence on cardiovascular risk factors but seems to fail to affect early, atherosclerotic vascular wall changes.
BACKGROUND: This study set out to identify the effects of recreational and endurance exercise on subclinical evidence of atherosclerosis in young adults. METHODS:Cardiovascular disease risk factors and intima-media thickness determination by B-mode ultrasonography of 150 subjects were correlated to endurance exercise, recreational exercise, and sedentary lifestyle. The subjects comprised 20- to 40-year-old men and women without cardiovascular disease. This cross-sectional, case-control study analyzed data on the laboratory parameters and information collected from a risk factor questionnaire. RESULTS: The athletes, both endurance and recreational groups, have significantly superior values with respect to physiognomy, lipid profile, and inflammatory markers in relation to the nonexercising study population (all P < 0.05). Detailed analysis showed markedly reduced values for relative body fat (relative reduction 14.3%), low-density lipoprotein (10.6%), and triglycerides (13.5%) and a 50% reduction of hs-C-reactive protein. In the univariate and multivariate comparison of athletic (n = 100) and nonathletic (n = 50) groups, exercise did not show to exert a significant influence on vascular wall parameters (for all, P > 0.05). CONCLUSION: Exercise, in recreational and endurance form, between the ages of 20 and 40 years exerts a preventive influence on cardiovascular risk factors but seems to fail to affect early, atherosclerotic vascular wall changes.
Authors: Daniel J Green; Maria T E Hopman; Jaume Padilla; M Harold Laughlin; Dick H J Thijssen Journal: Physiol Rev Date: 2017-04 Impact factor: 37.312
Authors: Laura F DeFina; Nina B Radford; Carolyn E Barlow; Benjamin L Willis; David Leonard; William L Haskell; Stephen W Farrell; Andjelka Pavlovic; Katelyn Abel; Jarett D Berry; Amit Khera; Benjamin D Levine Journal: JAMA Cardiol Date: 2019-02-01 Impact factor: 14.676
Authors: Magdalena Kwaśniewska; Anna Jegier; Tomasz Kostka; Elżbieta Dziankowska-Zaborszczyk; Ewa Rębowska; Joanna Kozińska; Wojciech Drygas Journal: PLoS One Date: 2014-01-20 Impact factor: 3.240