Table 4.

Effects post 12-week training of metabolic profile between EG (n = 24) and MG (n = 11).

		Baseline	12 weeks	Effect size	Delta post-pre(95%CI)	p	Effect	p	F	Effect size
Glucose (mg/dL)	EG	90.45 ± 14.80	81.51 ± 17.46	0.55	−7.90 [−16.35 to 0.54]		Group	0,22	1.5	0.07
						0.59	Time	0.01	6.93	0.17
	MG	84.63 ± 26.95	71.13 ± 32.02	0.46	−12.74 [−34.62 to 9.13]		Group × time	0,59	0.28	<0.01
Total cholesterol (mg/dL)	EG	108.37 ± 25.30	104.58 ± 14.34	0.19	−5.58 [−15.68 to 4.52]		Group	0.63	0.23	<0.01
						0.88	Time	0,30	1.10	0.33
	MG	104.84 ± 38.42	99.86 ± 32.85	0.14	−3.32 [−22.55 to 15.90]		Group × time	0,88	0.02	<0.01
Triacylglycerol (mg/dL)	EG	154.17 ± 62.34	129.72 ± 40.32*	0.48	−23.87 [−43.66 to −4.08]		Group	0,97	<0.01	0.00
						<0.01	Time	0.66	0.18	<0.01
	MG	132.31 ± 43.60	150.34 ± 52.30	0.38	9.99 [−8.71 to 28.71]		Group × time	<0.01	8.25	<0.21
HDL cholesterol (mg/dL)	EG	58.44 ± 23.17	63.43 ± 17.25		0.40 [−8.81 to 9.62]		Group	0.18	183	0.05
						0.22	Time	0,92	<0.01	0.00
	MG	54.43 ± 21.90	50.12 ± 17.34	0.25	−3.20 [−11.38 to 4.97]		Group × time	0.22	1.53	0.04
Albumin (mg/ml)	EG	63.64 ± 16.83	62.56 ± 15.82	0.07	−1.27 [−11.69 to 9.15]		Group	0.52	0.40	0.01
						0.33	Time	0.24	1.43	0.04
	MG	71.88 ± 31.23	61.25 ± 15.40	0,46	−33.93 [−33.93 to 12.66]		Group × time	0.33	0.95	0.03
Total colesterol—HDL (mg/dl)	EG	50.70 ± 39.87	40.94 ± 25.81	0.30	−5.98 [−19.57 to 7.61]		Group	0.68	0.16	<0.01
						0.43	Time	0.36	0.82	0.02
	MG	50.41 ± 33.95	49.74 ± 24.50	0.02	−0.12 [−21.43 to 21.18]		Group × time	0,43	0.63	0.01

EG, elastic group; MG, weight machine group;

^*p < 0.05 in compression between baseline and 12 weeks in EG. Data expressed as mean and standard deviation; Delta post-pre: difference between the initial and final evaluations of each group expressed as mean and 95% confidence interval.