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Trial reportScientific reports2023

Moderate intensity walking exercises reduce the body mass index and vascular inflammatory factors in postmenopausal women with obesity: a randomized controlled trial.

Woo-Hyeon Son, Hyun-Tae Park, Byeong Hwan Jeon, Min-Seong Ha

Registry-linked trialOpen access · goldAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Scientific reports, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07017517 (Effect of Physical Therapy on NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation and Muscle Atrophy in Critical Illness Myopathy), which is not on this map. Cited by 23 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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23citing papers in PubMed, 5 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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NCT07017517 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2026, after this paper: background citation

Effect of Physical Therapy on NLRP3 Inflammasome Activation and Muscle Atrophy in Critical Illness Myopathy (PT-NLRP3-CIM).

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of ChileRan2026 to 2027Enrolled24ConditionsCritical Illness MyopathyArmsMotomed Letto® servo-assisted cycling + standard physiotherapy, Standard physiotherapy
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Woo-Hyeon SonInstitute of Convergence Bio-Health, Dong-A University, 26 Daesingongwon-ro, Seo-gu, Busan, 49201, Republic of Korea.
Hyun-Tae Park *Graduate School of Health Care and Sciences, College of Health Science, Dong-A University, 37, Nakdong-daero 550beon-gil, Saha-gu, Busan, 49315, Republic of Korea. htpark@dau.ac.kr.
Byeong Hwan JeonDepartment of Sports and Health Science, College of Arts, Kyungsung University, 309, Suyeong-ro, Nam-gu, Busan, 48434, Republic of Korea.
Min-Seong Ha *Laboratory of Sports Conditioning: Nutrition Biochemistry and Neuroscience, Department of Sports Science, College of Arts and Sports, University of Seoul, 163 Seoulsiripdaero, Dongdaemun-gu, Seoul, 02504, Republic of Korea. haminseong@uos.ac.kr.
Dong-A University · KRKyungsung University · KRUniversity of Seoul · KR

Funding

the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea NRF-2021S1A5B5A16078209
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Postmenopause, the secretion of female hormones changes, causing excessive fat accumulation in the body and leading to chronic inflammation, which increases the incidence of cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Walking is an easily accessible daily exercise and effective non-pharmacological treatment for reducing obesity and the incidence of CVD. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of moderate intensity walking exercises on body composition, vascular inflammatory factors, and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) in postmenopausal women with obesity. Twenty-six older postmenopausal women with obesity (ages 68-72) were randomly assigned to control (n = 12, BMI 26.06 ± 1.37) or exercise (n = 14, BMI 26.04 ± 1.94) groups. Following a 12-week moderate intensity walking exercise program, we measured the participants' body composition with an InBody S10 analyzer and assessed blood sera using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays. There was a significant clustering by weight (p < 0.01), body mass index (p < 0.01), percentage body fat (p < 0.001), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (p < 0.05), interleukin-6, and tumor necrosis factor-α (p < 0.05) being significantly decreased in the exercise group. Although VEGF levels did not change significantly, a tendency to increase was observed in participants that exercised. Our results indicate that walking exercise may help prevent CVD in postmenopausal women with obesity by reducing obesity and vascular inflammatory factors.

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Cardiovascular DiseasesVascular Endothelial Growth Factor ABody CompositionBody Mass IndexExercise TherapyFemaleHumansObesityPostmenopauseWalkingVascular Endothelial Growth Factor A

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PMID37978254
PMCPMC10656478
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