Table 2.
Cardiorespiratory fitness and neuropsychological performance data.
| Total sample (n = 32) | MCI (n = 15) | HC (n = 17) | Time | Group × Time | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Before | After | Before | After | Before | After | |||
| Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | Mean (SD) | p-value () | p-value () | |
| Cardiorespiratory fitness | ||||||||
| VO2 peak (ml/kg/min) | 19.1 (5.8) | 21.0 (3.8) | 18.7 (3.8) | 21.0 (3.2) | 19.4 (7.3) | 21.1 (4.4) | 0.021 (0.19) | 0.730 (0.01) |
| Cognitive | ||||||||
| RAVLT-Trial 1 | 4.7 (2.1) | 5.7 (1.8) | 4.4 (1.8) | 5.9 (1.6) | 4.9 (2.4) | 5.5 (2.0) | 0.007 (0.22) | 0.228 (0.05) |
| RAVLT-Trial 1-5 | 42.8 (13.8) | 45.3 (13.8) | 38.7 (11.6) | 42.9 (11.8) | 46.4 (15.0) | 47.5 (15.4) | 0.122 (0.10) | 0.287 (0.04) |
| RAVLT IR | 8.8 (4.1) | 8.4 (4.3) | 6.8 (3.7) | 7.5 (4.3) | 9.9 (4.5) | 10.1 (3.6) | 0.272 (0.04) | 0.520 (0.01) |
| RAVLT DR | 8.4 (4.5) | 8.3 (4.6) | 6.8 (4.1) | 9.5 (4.6) | 6.9 (4.4) | 9.7 (4.5) | 0.818 (0.01) | 0.917 (0.01) |
| Clock drawing | 1.6 (1.1) | 1.4 (0.8) | 2.3 (1.1) | 2.0 (0.8) | 1.6 (1.1) | 1.4 (0.8) | 0.093 (0.09) | 0.914 (0.01) |
| COWAT | 36.3 (12.0) | 39.1 (13.7) | 34.1 (11.2) | 40.0 (14.5) | 38.3 (12.8) | 38.4 (13.4) | 0.018 (0.17) | 0.020 (0.17) |
| Animal fluency | 16.9 (6.7) | 17.0 (8.0) | 14.8 (6.5) | 14.1 (8.3) | 18.8 (6.5) | 19.5 (7.1) | 0.987 (0.01) | 0.411 (0.02) |
MCI, Mild Cognitive Impairment; HC, Healthy Control; RAVLT, Rey Auditory Verbal Learning Test; Trial 1, Trial 1–5; IR, Immediate Recall; DR, Delayed Recall; COWAT, Controlled Oral Word Association Test; VO2 peak, peak rate of oxygen consumption; p-values and effect size () reflect the Time and Group × Time effects from repeated measures ANOVA; Bold indicates p < 0.05.