Table 1.

Participant characteristics

	Premenopausal Sedentary	Postmenopausal Sedentary	Postmenopausal AE-Trained
N	12	25	16
Age, yr	24 ± 1*	62 ± 1	59 ± 1
Body mass, kg	62.7 ± 2.5	66.2 ± 1.4	59.4 ± 1.9†
Body mass index, kg/m2	22.6 ± 1.0	24.5 ± 0.5*	21.4 ± 0.5
Body fat, %	32.2 ± 1.9	38.3 ± 1.4*	26.4 ± 1.9*
Waist-to-hip ratio, U	0.72 ± 0.01	0.76 ± 0.01*	0.72 ± 0.01
Systolic blood pressure, mmHg	107 ± 5	118 ± 3*	105 ± 2
Diastolic blood pressure, mmHg	67 ± 3	71 ± 2	65 ± 1
Resting heart rate, beats/min	65 ± 3	64 ± 2	52 ± 2*
V̇o2max, ml·kg−1·min−1	37.5 ± 1.6	24.7 ± 0.9*	40.4 ± 1.4
LTPA, MET-hr/wkL	23.6 ± 6.2	10.9 ± 2.0	105.2 ± 10.1*

Data are means ± SE. LTPA, leisure time physical activity; ^L, data log transformed for statistical analysis.

^*P < 0.05 vs. all other groups;

^†P < 0.05 vs. postmenopausal sedentary women.