Research Article

Differences in Ventilatory Threshold for Exercise Prescription in Outpatient Diabetic and Sarcopenic Obese Subjects

Table 1

Physical characteristics of patients.

OBOST2DM

Age (yrs)58.8 ± 7.859.6 ± 10.460.9 ± 13.0
Weight (kg)91.4 ± 12.791.7 ± 23.099.1 ± 18.5
Height (cm)157.8 ± 4.5158.0 ± 5.5161.9 ± 8.2
BMI (kg/m2)36.6 ± 4.137.0 ± 7.337.7 ± 5.6
%FM (%)43.5 ± 3.039.6 ± 5.541.0 ± 8.9
HRrest (bpm)78.5 ± 9.778.3 ± 15.176.3 ± 14.3

OB: obese subjects; OS: sarcopenic obese subjects; T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus; BMI: body mass index; : resting heart rate. No statistically significant difference () was found between OB, OS, and T2DM subjects. Values are mean ± SD.