Table 1.

Anthropometric and clinical characteristics of subjects participating to the study

	VPG	CG
Number of subjects	12	12
Age (yrs)	69 ± 3	68 ± 2
Height (cm)	177 ± 3	176 ± 4
Body weight (kg)	78 ± 7	83 ± 10*
BMI (kg/m2)	24.8 ± 2.1	26.9 ± 3.4*
Total body fat (%)	22.3 ± 1.5	28.8 ± 1.4*
VO2peak (ml/kg/min)	35 ± 5	28 ± 4*

Value are reported as means ± SD

*p < 0.05 VPG vs CG