ArticleFrontiers in endocrinology2013
Diabetes and technology for increased activity study: the effects of exercise and technology on heart rate variability and metabolic syndrome risk factors.
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- Effectiveness of Mobile Health Interventions Promoting Physical Activity and Lifestyle Interventions to Reduce Cardiovascular Risk Among Individuals With Metabolic Syndrome: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of medical Internet research · 2020Pooled it
- The effect of active occupational stress management on psychosocial and physiological wellbeing: a pilot study.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2020Trial
- A lifestyle intervention supported by mobile health technologies to improve the cardiometabolic risk profile of individuals at risk for cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes: study rationale and protocol.BMC public health · 2013Trial
- Effects of Physical Training on Heart Rate Variability in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Effects of Individualized Exercise on Risk Factors of Metabolic Syndrome: A Scoping Review.Journal of obesity & metabolic syndrome · 2024Article
- A three-month physical training program improves cardiovascular autonomic function in patients with metabolic syndrome with and without diabetes - a pilot study.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2023Article
- Cardiac Autonomic Neuropathy in Obesity, the Metabolic Syndrome and Prediabetes: A Narrative Review.Diabetes therapy : research, treatment and education of diabetes and related disorders · 2019 · on this mapReview
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Cardiac Autonomic Function in Diabetes.Current diabetes reports · 2017Review
- Increased prevalence of cardiac autonomic dysfunction at different degrees of glucose intolerance in the general population: the KORA S4 survey.Diabetologia · 2015Article
- HEART RATE VARIABILITY IN METABOLICALLY HEALTHY AND METABOLICALLY UNHEALTHY OBESE PREMENOPAUSAL WOMEN.Acta endocrinologica (Bucharest, Romania : 2005)Article
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Abstract
This study tested the hypothesis that an 8-week exercise intervention supported by mobile health (mHealth) technology would improve metabolic syndrome (MetS) risk factors and heart rate variability (HRV) in a population with MetS risk factors. Participants (n = 12; three male; aged 56.9 ± 7.0 years) reported to the laboratory for assessment of MetS risk factors and fitness (VO2max) at baseline (V 0) and after 8-weeks (V 2) of intervention. Participants received an individualized exercise prescription and a mHealth technology kit for remote monitoring of blood pressure (BP), blood glucose, physical activity, and body weight via smartphone. Participants underwent 24-h ambulatory monitoring of R-R intervals following V 0 and V 2. Low and high frequency powers of HRV were assessed from the recording and the ratio of low-to-high frequency powers and low and high frequency powers in normalized units were calculated. One-way repeated measures analysis of variance showed that waist circumference (V 0: 113.1 ± 11.0 cm, V 2: 108.1 ± 14.7 cm; p = 0.004) and diastolic BP (V 0: 81 ± 6 mmHg, V 2: 76 ± 11 mmHg; p = 0.04) were reduced and VO2max increased (V 0: 31.3 ml/kg/min, V 2: 34.8 ml/kg/min; p = 0.02) with no changes in other MetS risk factors. Low and high frequency powers in normalized units were reduced (V 0: 75.5 ± 12.0, V 2: 72.0 ± 12.1; p = 0.03) and increased (V 0: 24.5 ± 12.0, V 2: 28.0 ± 12.1; p = 0.03), respectively, with no other changes in HRV. Over the intervention period, changes in systolic BP were correlated negatively with the changes in R-R interval (r = -0.600; p = 0.04) and positively with the changes in heart rate (r = 0.611; p = 0.03), with no other associations between MetS risk factors and HRV parameters. Thus, this 8-week mHealth supported exercise intervention improved MetS risk factors and HRV parameters, but only changes in systolic BP were associated with improved autonomic function.
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