TY - JOUR
T1 - Endurance training improves post-exercise cardiac autonomic modulation in obese women with and without type 2 diabetes
AU - Figueroa, Arturo
AU - Baynard, Tracy
AU - Fernhall, Bo
AU - Carhart, Robert
AU - Kanaley, Jill A.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This study was founded in part by the New York Sate Diabetes Bridge Grant and by NIH DK063179.
PY - 2007/7
Y1 - 2007/7
N2 - Obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are associated with abnormal cardiovascular autonomic function and increased risk for cardiac complications, especially after exercise. Since improvements at rest are not always observed after training, we investigated changes in resting and post-exercise autonomic function in obese women with and without T2D after16-week of walking training. Heart rate (HR) variability (HRV) and baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) were measured at rest and 20 min after a 20 min bout of treadmill exercise at 65% VO2 peak in obese women with (n = 8) and without T2D (n = 12) before and after training. HRV was analyzed by frequency-domain [high- (HF) power and low-frequency (LF)] and BRS by the sequence method. Exercise training induced similar significant changes in VO2 peak, resting systolic blood pressure (SBP) and post-exercise autonomic function in both groups. Training increased VO2peak (6%; P < 0.01) and decreased resting SBP (8%; P < 0.001). Increased post-exercise HR recovery (5%; P < 0.001), HF power (14%; P < 0.05), LF power (14%; P < 0.05) and BRS (86%; P < 0.001) were also observed. Resting autonomic function and post-exercise SBP were not altered after training. In conclusion, endurance training reduced blood pressure without changes in HRV and BRS at rest, but training increased HRV and BRS during the recovery of acute endurance exercise indicating an improved post-exercise autonomic modulation of HR, which was similar in obese women with and without T2D.
AB - Obesity and type 2 diabetes (T2D) are associated with abnormal cardiovascular autonomic function and increased risk for cardiac complications, especially after exercise. Since improvements at rest are not always observed after training, we investigated changes in resting and post-exercise autonomic function in obese women with and without T2D after16-week of walking training. Heart rate (HR) variability (HRV) and baroreflex sensitivity (BRS) were measured at rest and 20 min after a 20 min bout of treadmill exercise at 65% VO2 peak in obese women with (n = 8) and without T2D (n = 12) before and after training. HRV was analyzed by frequency-domain [high- (HF) power and low-frequency (LF)] and BRS by the sequence method. Exercise training induced similar significant changes in VO2 peak, resting systolic blood pressure (SBP) and post-exercise autonomic function in both groups. Training increased VO2peak (6%; P < 0.01) and decreased resting SBP (8%; P < 0.001). Increased post-exercise HR recovery (5%; P < 0.001), HF power (14%; P < 0.05), LF power (14%; P < 0.05) and BRS (86%; P < 0.001) were also observed. Resting autonomic function and post-exercise SBP were not altered after training. In conclusion, endurance training reduced blood pressure without changes in HRV and BRS at rest, but training increased HRV and BRS during the recovery of acute endurance exercise indicating an improved post-exercise autonomic modulation of HR, which was similar in obese women with and without T2D.
KW - Autonomic nervous system
KW - Baroreflex sensitivity
KW - Exercise recovery
KW - Obesity
KW - Type2 diabetes
KW - Walk training
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U2 - 10.1007/s00421-007-0446-3
DO - 10.1007/s00421-007-0446-3
M3 - Article
C2 - 17406886
AN - SCOPUS:34248649344
SN - 1439-6319
VL - 100
SP - 437
EP - 444
JO - European journal of applied physiology
JF - European journal of applied physiology
IS - 4
ER -