ArticleAnnals of nutrition & metabolism2017
Effects of Weight Loss with and without Exercise on Regional Body Fat Distribution in Postmenopausal Women.
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- Fat Cell Size: Measurement Methods, Pathophysiological Origins, and Relationships With Metabolic Dysregulations.Endocrine reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Effects of a Hypocaloric, Nutritionally Complete, Higher Protein Meal Plan on Regional Body Fat and Cardiometabolic Biomarkers in Older Adults with Obesity.Annals of nutrition & metabolism · 2019Trial
- Association between physical activity, weight - adjusted waist index, and all - cause mortality in Chinese older adults: a national community - based cohort study.Biology of sport · 2025Article
- Detrimental Changes in Health during Menopause: The Role of Physical Activity.International journal of sports medicine · 2023Review
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- Effect of aerobic exercise and low-carbohydrate high-fat diet on glucose tolerance and android/gynoid fat in overweight/obese women: A randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Body composition and cardiometabolic health across the menopause transition.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Review
- Adipogenesis: A Necessary but Harmful Strategy.International journal of molecular sciences · 2019Review
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Abstract
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aimsThe purpose was to determine whether lifestyle interventions have different effects on regional fat in women with normal glucose tolerance vs. impaired glucose tolerance (NGT vs. IGT).
methodsChanges in glucose metabolism (2-h oral glucose-tolerance tests), android to gynoid fat mass ratio (dual energy X-ray absorptiometry [DXA]), visceral to subcutaneous abdominal fat area ratio (CT), and abdominal to gluteal subcutaneous fat cell weight (FCW; adipose tissue biopsies) were determined in 60 overweight postmenopausal women (45-80 years) following 6 months of weight loss alone (WL; n = 28) or with aerobic exercise (AEX + WL; n = 32).
resultsThe interventions led to ∼8% decrease in weight, but only the AEX + WL group improved fitness (↑11% in VO2max) and reduced the android-to-gynoid fat mass ratio (↓5%; p < 0.05). Both NGT and IGT groups reduced visceral and subcutaneous abdominal fat areas and abdominal and gluteal FCWs, which related to improvements in homeostatic model assessment (r = 0.34-0.42) and 2-h glucose (r = 0.34-0.35), respectively (p < 0.05). The decline in FCW was 2× greater in women with IGT following WL (p < 0.05). The ratios of abdominal-to-gluteal FCW did not change following either intervention.
conclusionsThe mechanisms by which WL with and without exercise impact regional fat loss should be explored as reductions in abdominal fat area and subcutaneous FCW appear to influence glucose metabolism. This is a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright protection in the United States. Foreign copyrights may apply. Published by S. Karger AG, Basel.
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