Table 1.

Anthropometric and clinical characteristics of subjects participating to the study.

	VPG	CG
Number of subjects	15	15
Age (yrs)	69.3 ± 3.2	68.3 ± 2.8
Height (cm)	178.5 ± 4.9	176.8 ± 6.3
Body weight (kg)	77.4 ± 7.7	85.9 ± 11.2*
BMI (kg/m2)	24.3 ± 2.2	27.5 ± 3.7*
Total body fat (%)	22.9 ± 6.7	30.8 ± 4.6*
VO2peak (mL/kg/min)	33.7 ± 5.4	27.6 ± 4.9*

^∗p < 0.05 VPG vs CG. Values are reported as means±SDs.