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

Table 3

Absolute and relative exercise intensities at IVT in obese, sarcopenic obese, and T2DM subjects.

	OB	OS	T2DM
(ml min^−1 kg^−1)	12.2 ± 2.5	11.6 ± 2.3	9.5 ± 2.6
% (%)	67.6 ± 8.2	69.6 ± 8.5	58.5 ± 14.2
	3.5 ± 0.7	3.3 ± 0.7	2.7 ± 0.8
% (%)	69.1 ± 8.6	66.1 ± 10.2	58.0 ± 8.4
% (%)	39.6 ± 16.4	33.4 ± 17.7	19.9 ± 9.9
HR (bpm)	33.5 ± 14.2	27.6 ± 14.8	16.2 ± 7.8

OB: obese subjects; OS: sarcopenic obese subjects; T2DM: type 2 diabetes mellitus; : oxygen uptake; MET: metabolic equivalent. Data shown are intended as mean ± SD. Statistically significant differences between T2DM subjects versus OB and OS groups ().