Adverse metabolic response to regular exercise: is it a rare or common occurrence?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals differ in the response to regular exercise. Whether there are people who experience adverse changes in cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors has never been addressed.

Methodology/principal findings

An adverse response is defined as an exercise-induced change that worsens a risk factor beyond measurement error and expected day-to-day variation. Sixty subjects were measured three times over a period of three weeks, and variation in resting systolic blood pressure (SBP) and in fasting plasma HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C), triglycerides (TG), and insulin (FI) was quantified. The technical error (TE) defined as the within-subject standard deviation derived from these measurements was computed. An adverse response for a given risk factor was defined as a change

SUBMITTER: Bouchard C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3364277 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature