Resistance Training and Sarcopenic Obesity Elderly Women

Launched by UNIVERSIDADE ESTADUAL DE LONDRINA · Dec 6, 2017

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ClinConnect Summary

To investigate the effects of resistance training (RT) program on body composition, functional capacity, inflammatory and oxidative stress biomarkers in sarcopenic obesity elderly women. This study is a randomized controlled trial. Thirty-seven sarcopenic obesity (SO) elderly women were randomly allocated into two groups: a training group (TG, n=18) or a non-exercising control group (CG, n=19). A supervised RT program was performed by TG for 12 weeks and CG did not perform any type of physical exercise during this period. Body composition (DXA), functional capacity \[(muscular strength, and...

Gender

FEMALE

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • 60 years old or more;
• • presented sarcopenic obesity SO \[which was defined by the simultaneous presence of sarcopenia and obesity (Batsis et al., 2015; Studenski et al., 2014), whereas women were considered sarcopenic if appendicular lean soft tissue (LST) \<15.02 kg, and obese if percentage of body fat ≥ 35% (Batsis et al., 2015)\];
• • physically independent;
• • free from cardiac or orthopedic dysfunction;
• • not receiving hormonal replacement and/or thyroid therapy;
• • not using equipment that would compromise the accomplishment of protocols and tests;
• • not performing any regular physical exercise more than once a week over the six months preceding the beginning of the investigation.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • individuals with any metallic implant or artificial pacemaker, who had undergone surgery, who were unable to perform the tests and trainings;
• • volunteers who failed the medical examination for any reason;
• • refused or were unable to give consent.