1. Walking exercise and lower-body blood flow restriction: Effects on systemic inflammation, lipid profiles and hematological indices in overweight middle-aged males.
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Razi, Omid, Mohammadi, Mohammad, Zamani, Nastaran, Hackney, Anthony C., Tourny, Claire, Zouita, Sghaeir, Laher, Ismail, and Zouhal, Hassane
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INFLAMMATION prevention ,CARDIOVASCULAR disease prevention ,OBESITY ,CARDIOVASCULAR diseases risk factors ,TRIGLYCERIDES ,BIOCHEMISTRY ,STATISTICS ,C-reactive protein ,MEN'S health ,HEMOGLOBINS ,HEMATOCRIT ,ANALYSIS of variance ,BLOOD flow restriction training ,BLOOD viscosity ,EFFECT sizes (Statistics) ,EXERCISE physiology ,TREADMILLS ,LOW density lipoproteins ,LEG ,COMPARATIVE studies ,PRE-tests & post-tests ,RANDOMIZED controlled trials ,WALKING ,FIBRINOGEN ,QUESTIONNAIRES ,SPHYGMOMANOMETERS ,DESCRIPTIVE statistics ,EXERCISE intensity ,BLOOD cell count ,ERYTHROCYTES ,BODY mass index ,STATISTICAL sampling ,DATA analysis ,HIGH density lipoproteins ,EXERCISE therapy ,LIPIDS ,ADULTS ,MIDDLE age - Abstract
The objective of present study is to investigate the effects of walk training with and without blood flow restriction (BFR and no-BFR) on lipid profiles, inflammatory and haematological factors in over-weighed men. Participants were divided into BFR (n = 9) or no-BFR (n = 9) groups. Both groups were exposed to 8-week walk training on a treadmill: 3 sessions/week at a speed of 50 m/min, 5 sets × 2 min/session. There were differences in pre- to post-levels of (TG) and fibrinogen in the BFR group (p ≤ 0.05) that were accompanied by changes in red blood cells (RBC), haemoglobin (HGB) and haematocrit (HCT) levels (p ≤ 0.05). RBC levels were increased in the BFR group (p ≤ 0.05). The groups differed in their mean corpuscular volume (MCV) and mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (MCHC). These findings suggest the efficiency of BFR walk training in individuals exposed to chronic diseases associated with overweight, such as metabolic syndrome. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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