Effect of diet with or without exercise on abdominal fat in postmenopausal women - a randomised trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

We assessed the effect of equivalent weight loss with or without exercise on (intra-) abdominal fat in postmenopausal women in the SHAPE-2 study.

Methods

The SHAPE-2 study is a three-armed randomised controlled trial conducted in 2012-2013 in the Netherlands. Postmenopausal overweight women were randomized to a diet (n = 97), exercise plus diet (n = 98) or control group (n = 48). Both intervention groups aimed for equivalent weight loss (6-7%) following a calorie-restricted diet (diet group) or a partly supervised intensive exercise programme (4 h per week) combined with a small caloric restriction (exercise plus diet group). Outcomes after 16 weeks are amount and distribution of abdominal fat, measured by magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with the use of the three

SUBMITTER: van Gemert WA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6371569 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature