Clinical Study

Lifestyle Intervention Involving Calorie Restriction with or without Aerobic Exercise Training Improves Liver Fat in Adults with Visceral Adiposity

Table 2

Changes in diet-induced weight loss with or without aerobic exercise on blood pressure and metabolic parameters.

CR ( )CR + Ex ( ) value
BeforeAfterBeforeAfter value group × time
Av ± SEMAv ± SEMAv ± SEMAv ± SEMinteraction

Blood pressure
 Systolic blood pressure (mmHg)136 ± 5 124 ± 4**130 ± 3 123 ± 4 0.3500.368
 Diastolic blood pressure (mmHg)85 ± 3 78 ± 3*81 ± 2 77 ± 3 0.2870.398
Metabolic parameter
 Glucose (mg/dL)99 ± 2 95 ± 2*104 ± 4 99 ± 2 0.1790.678
 Insulin (μIU/mL)8.2 ± 0.7 6.5 ± 0.5*9.6 ± 1.4 6.5 ± 0.9**0.3710.198
  HOMA-IR2.0 ± 0.8 1.5 ± 0.5*2.6 ± 1.8 1.6 ± 0.9**0.151
  OGTT120min-Glucose (mg/dL)140 ± 7 129 ± 6 165 ± 17 145 ± 12 0.1420.494
 Hemoglobin A1c (%)5.2 ± 0.1 5.1 ± 0.1 5.5 ± 0.1 5.3 ± 0.1**0.0190.029
 HDL (mg/dL)51 ± 3 49 ± 2 49 ± 2 54 ± 2**0.6010.004
 Low density lipoprotein (mg/dL)140 ± 10 129 ± 8 126 ± 10 115 ± 8 0.3520.977
 Triglyceride (mg/dL)145 ± 17 119 ± 17 128 ± 13 84 ± 6**0.4630.311
 Free fatty acid (μEq/L)303 ± 61 276 ± 55 269 ± 60 237 ± 53 0.7010.905
 Total cholesterol (mg/dL)227 ± 12 208 ± 10*207 ± 12 194 ± 9 0.2630.509
 Interleukin-6 (pg/mL)††2.6 ± 0.8 1.2 ± 0.1 3.1 ± 0.9 2.2 ± 1.1 0.6960.625
 TNF-α (pg/mL)1.1 ± 0.1 1.1 ± 0.1 1.3 ± 0.2 1.1 ± 0.1*0.1300.027
 Leptin (ng/mL)14.6 ± 1.9 10.3 ± 1.8***11.4 ± 1.3 6.4 ± 0.8***0.2050.541
 High-sensitive CRP (ng/mL)#2.9 ± 0.1 2.5 ± 0.1***2.9 ± 0.1 2.6 ± 0.1**0.8640.537
 HMW adiponectin (μg/mL)5.1 ± 0.7 5.4 ± 0.8 5.2 ± 0.7 6.0 ± 0.7*0.8610.186
 PAI-1 (ng/mL)†††29.5 ± 3.1 24.3 ± 4.1 32.8 ± 5.2 17.8 ± 2.1**0.5710.101

CR: calorie restriction-induced weight loss; CR + Ex: calorie restriction-induced weight loss with aerobic exercise; OGTT: oral glucose tolerance test; HDL: high-density lipoprotein; LDL: low-density lipoprotein; TNF-α: tumor necrosis factor-α; hsCRP: high-sensitive CRP; HMW: high-molecular-weight; PAI-1: plasminogen activator inhibitor-1.
Before versus after; * , ** , and *** .
value for baseline characteristics (CR group versus CR + Ex group).
#High-sensitive CRP was logarithmically transformed to approximate a normal distribution.
CR ( ), ††CR ( ); †††CR ( ), CR + Ex ( ).