Table 2.

Blood pressure and lipoprotein lipids before and after the interventions.

	Weight Loss (n=10)		Aerobic Exercise + Weight Loss (n=15)
	Before	After	Before	After
Systolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	123 ± 5	129 ± 4	128 ± 4	124 ± 6
Diastolic blood pressure (mm Hg)	80 ± 4	77 ± 2	81 ± 3	81 ± 2
Total cholesterol (mmol/l)	5.16 ± 0.44	5.02 ± 0.40	5.05 ± 0.07	4.83 ± 0.23
LDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)	3.47 ± 0.43	3.47 ± 0.43	3.01 ± 0.19	3.00 ± 0.19
HDL-cholesterol (mmol/l)	1.16 ± 0.14	1.24 ± 0.09*	1.18 ± 0.08	1.19 ± 0.07
HDL2-cholesterol (mmol/l)	0.11 ± 0.04	0.20 ± 0.06*	0.16 ± 0.04	0.16 ± 0.03
Triglycerides (mmol/l)	1.25 ± 0.15	1.02 ± 0.13*	1.91 ± 0.32	1.46 ± 0.13

Values are means ± SEM. Significantly different before vs. after the intervention:

^*p<0.05