Table 4.
Baseline to 10-Week Comparisons in Laboratory and Physiological Variables in Exercise-Group Participants
| Variable | Baseline
|
10-Week
|
Mean Difference
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | Median | IQR | n | Median | IQR | na | Median | IQR | |
| Weight (kg) | 15 | 88.5 | 75.3–112.9 | 15 | 96.2 | 77.6–111.6 | 13 | 0.7 | −0.5–3.9 |
| Weight, outliers removed (kg) | 12 | 103.8 | 77.3–122.1 | 12 | 98.0 | 78.0–115.9 | 10 | −0.3 | −0.7–1.8 |
| M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | ||||
| BMI (kg/m2) | 14 | 33.2 | 9.1 | 15 | 33.5 | 8.4 | 13 | 0.8 | 1.6 |
| Triglycerides | 15 | 127.3 | 42.7 | 14 | 171.5 | 134.9 | 14 | 49.5 | 135.7 |
| Fasting lipids (cholesterol) | 15 | 175.4 | 38.8 | 14 | 191.9 | 55.2 | 14 | 16.7 | 35.3 |
| HDL | 15 | 47.0 | 12.7 | 14 | 43.6 | 10.6 | 14 | −4.2 | 10.7 |
| LDL | 15 | 102.9 | 34.5 | 13 | 109.4 | 34.2 | 13 | 6.7 | 13.0 |
| VLDL | 15 | 25.5 | 8.4 | 13 | 27.9 | 13.5 | 13 | 3.2 | 11.2 |
| Fasting glucose | 15 | 101.7 | 15.8 | 14 | 122.1 | 64.4 | 14 | 20.0 | 60.3 |
| Pre-exercise blood pressure | |||||||||
| Systolic | 15 | 117.1 | 9.4 | 15 | 123.5 | 14.7 | 13 | 6.2 | 14.6 |
| Diastolic | 15 | 75.9 | 12.8 | 15 | 77.5 | 9.4 | 13 | 2.6 | 8.0 |
| Pulse (bpm) | 15 | 84.9 | 12.6 | 15 | 90.6 | 11.6 | 13 | 9.0* | 13.4 |
| Respirations (rpm) | 15 | 20.0 | 3.1 | 15 | 19.6 | 2.6 | 13 | −0.5 | 3.3 |
| Waist (inches) | 11 | 43.0 | 5.7 | 13 | 43.4 | 5.7 | 11 | −0.1 | 2.5 |
Note. BMI = body mass index; HDL = high-density lipoproteins; IQR = interquartile range (25th–75th percentile); LDL = low-density lipoproteins; VLDL = very low-density lipoproteins.
a
Number of participants for whom there were both baseline and end-of-study data.
*
Significant at the .05 level.