Table 4.
Linear regression models for associations between the study variables and changes in the selected biophysiological measures.
| Stratification Variables | ΔaSBP |
ΔDBP |
ΔTC |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model Ib | Model II | Model III | Model I | Model II | Model III | Model I | Model II | Model III | |
| Exercise | – | – | – | – | – | – | |||
| Diet-plus-exercise | 0.33 (−1.95, 2.61) | −0.46 (−2.74, 1.81) | 0.21 (−1.38, 1.81) | −0.18 (−1.78, 1.42) | 2.78 (−0.88, 6.45) | 1.47 (−2.18, 5.12) | |||
| ΔBW | 0.57∗∗∗ (0.35, 0.80) | 0.58∗∗∗ (0.35, 0.80) | 0.28∗∗∗ (0.12, 0.44) | 0.29∗∗∗ (0.12, 0.45) | 0.98∗∗∗ (0.61, 1.34) | 0.96∗∗∗ (0.59, 1.32) | |||
| Stratification Variables | ΔTG |
ΔLDL |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model I | Model II | Model III | Model I | Model II | Model III | |
| Exercise | – | – | – | – | ||
| Diet-plus-exercise | 4.81 (−7.55,17.17) | 0.23 (−12.06, 12.53) | 1.27 (−2.20, 4.74) | 0.33 (−3.14, 3.80) | ||
| ΔBW | 3.34∗∗∗ (2.12, 4.55) | 3.33∗∗∗ (2.11, 4.56) | 0.69∗∗∗ (0.35, 1.03) | 0.68∗∗∗ (0.34, 1.03) | ||
∗∗∗p-value < 0.001, calculated using a multiple linear regression analysis adjusted for age, gender, cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, regular exercise, and metabolic syndrome.
a
1. ΔChange was calculated by subtracting the post-test values from the pre-test values; 2. Abbreviations: SBP: systolic blood pressure; DBP: diastolic blood pressure; TC: total cholesterol; TG: triglyceride; LDL: low density lipid.
b
Parameter estimate (95% CI).