Effect of physical training on heart-period variability in obese children
Effect of physical training on heart-period variability in obese children
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DOI:
10.1016/s0022-3476(97)70280-4
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发表时间:
1997-06-01
影响因子:
5.1
通讯作者:
Treiber, F
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作者:
Gutin, B;Owens, S;Treiber, F
Objective: The beat-to-beat variability in electrocardiogram intervals (RR, i.e., heart-period variability) provides information on cardiac autonomic activity that predicts arrhythmias and mortality rate in animals and adults, We determined the effect of physical training on heart-period variability in obese children.Methods: Thirty-five subjects were randomly assigned to physical training and control groups, The training involved 4 months of exercise, 5 days per week, 40 minutes per day, Cardiovascular fitness was measured with submaximal heart rate during supine cycling; percentage of body fat was measured with dual-energy absorptiometry; and resting heart-period variability parameters were measured in a supine position, A pretraining to posttraining change score was computed for each variable, The effect of the training was determined by comparing the changes of the training and control groups,Results: Compared with the control group, the trained group (1) reduced submaximal heart rate and percentage of body fat (p < 0.01); (2) increased in the root mean square of successive differences, a time-domain parameter reflective of vagal tone (p < 0.05); (3) decreased in low-frequency power expressed as a percentage of total power, a frequency-domain index of combined sympathetic and vagal activity (p < 0.03); and (4) decreased in the Patio of low- to high-frequency power, an index of sympathetic-parasympathetic balance (p < 0.01),Conclusions: In obese children, physical training alters cardiac autonomic function favorably by reducing the ratio of sympathetic to parasympathetic activity.