Effect of aerobic exercise alone or combined with Mediterranean diet on dry eye in obese hypertensive elderly.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Lifestyle modification is a newly recommended complementary treatment for dry eye (DE) disorder.

Objective

To investigate the effect of a 6-month high-intensity interval aerobic exercise (HIIAE) (conducted 30 min, 3 times weekly) alone or combined with a caloric-restriction approach, the Mediterranean diet (MD), on DE parameters in obese hypertensive elderly.

The design, settings, participants, and intervention

This is a randomized controlled trial included sixty obese hypertensive elderly with DE based on university-based hospital recruitment. Elderly were randomly assigned to the experimental group (n = 30 elderly received HIIAE plus MD) and control group (n = 30 elderly received only HIIAE). Besides anthropometry (abdominal circumference, body weight, an

SUBMITTER: Ismail AMA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10692261 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature