Effects of Physical Activity (Exercise and Activities in Daily Living) on Metabolic Syndrome

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From 2009 to 2012 (3 years), 312 subjects over forty years of age, who were engaged as clerical workers, teachers or medical workers in a faculty of medicine of an university and its attached hospital, were followed up. It was studied how physical activity affected factors related to metabolic syndrome such as age, body weight, BMI, abdominal circumference, blood pressure, HDL-C, triglyceride, blood glucose and dietary habits: midnight snack, skipping breakfast, drinking and smoking. Subjects were divided into two groups according to physical activity (exercise group: having physical activity or walking for 1 hour or more a week, non- exercise group: having physical activity or walking for below 1 hour a week). The result showed that physical activity influenced on abdominal circumference in male subjects. Furthermore, it was also concluded that smoking increased abdominal circumference and decrease in triglycerides and abdominal circumference raised HDL-C in male subjects.