Effects of interval training on quality of life and cardiometabolic risk markers in older adults: a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To explore the effects of 10 weeks of progressive vigorous interval training as a single intervention on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and cardiometabolic risk markers in centrally obese 70-year-old individuals.

Participants and methods

A randomized controlled trial (ClinicalTrials.gov registration no. NCT03450655) including seventy-seven community-dwelling 70-year-old men and women with central obesity defined as > 1 kg visceral adipose tissue for women and > 2 kg for men. Participants randomized to the intervention group were offered a 10-week progressive vigorous interval training program performed three times per week. Control subjects were asked to maintain their daily living and routines throughout the trial. All participants in both groups had receive

SUBMITTER: Ballin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6732517 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature