Dose-response effects of exercise training on the subjective sleep quality of postmenopausal women: exploratory analyses of a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate whether a dose-response relationship existed between exercise and subjective sleep quality in postmenopausal women. This objective represents a post hoc assessment that was not previously considered.

Design

Parallel-group randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Clinical exercise physiology laboratory in Dallas, Texas.

Participants

437 sedentary overweight/obese postmenopausal women.

Intervention

Participants were randomised to one of four treatments, each of 6 months of duration: a non-exercise control treatment (n=92) or one of three dosages of moderate-intensity exercise (50% of VO(2peak)), designed to meet 50% (n=151), 100% (n=99) or 150% (n=95) of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Panel physical activity re

SUBMITTER: Kline CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3400065 | biostudies-literature | 2012

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature