Smaller differences in total and regional adiposity with age in women who regularly perform endurance exercise. Journal Article uri icon

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abstract

  • Our aim was to determine if women who regularly perform endurance exercise demonstrate age-related elevations in body mass and adiposity. Ninety-five healthy females were studied: premenopausal (n = 28; mean +/- SE age 30 +/- 1 yr) and postmenopausal (n = 31; 56 +/- 1 yr) endurance-trained runners and premenopausal (n = 17; 29 +/- 1 yr) and postmenopausal (n = 19; 61 +/- 1 yr) sedentary controls. In the runners, body mass did not differ across age, but percent fat and fat mass were higher (P < 0.05) in the postmenopausal women. The age-related difference in total body fat, however, was only approximately 50% as great (P < 0.01) as that observed in the sedentary controls due in part to smaller age-related differences in central (truncal) fat. The higher fat mass in the postmenopausal runners was modestly (inversely) related to both exercise volume (r = -0.44, P < 0.01) and maximal oxygen consumption (r = -0.41, P < 0.01). The present findings provide experimental support for the hypothesis that women who regularly engage in vigorous endurance exercise may not gain body weight, undergo only a modest increase in total body fat, and do not demonstrate a significant elevation in central adiposity with age.

publication date

  • October 1, 1998

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has restriction

  • bronze

Date in CU Experts

  • September 9, 2013 9:27 AM

Full Author List

  • Van Pelt RE; Davy KP; Stevenson ET; Wilson TM; Jones PP; Desouza CA; Seals DR

author count

  • 7

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International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0002-9513

Additional Document Info

start page

  • E626

end page

  • E634

volume

  • 275

issue

  • 4