(15-04-07) Calorie Restriction or Exercise: Effects on Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors. A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Fontana L, Villareal DT, Weiss EP, Racette SB, Steger-May K, Klein S,Holloszy JO.
Internal Medicine, Washington University in St.Louis, St.Louis, Missouri, United States.

Coronary heart disease (CHD) risk factors and the risk of CHD increase with increased adiposity. Fat loss induced by negative energy balance improves all metabolic CHD risk factors. To determine whether fat loss induced by long-term calorie restriction (CR) or increased energy expenditure induced by exercise (EX) has different effects on CHD risk factors in non-obese subjects, we conducted a 1-year controlled trial involving 48 non-obese subjects who were randomly assigned to 1 of 3 groups: CR = 20% calorically restricted diet (n=18); EX = 20% increase in energy expenditure through daily exercise with no increase in energy intake (n=18); or HL = healthy lifestyle guidelines (n=10). Subjects were 29 women and 17 men aged 57+/-3 yr, with body mass index 27.3+/-2.0 kg/m(2). Assessments included total body fat by DXA, lipoproteins, blood pressure, HOMA-IR index, C-reactive protein (CRP) and estimated 10-yrs CHD risk score. Body fat decreased by 6.3+/-3.8 kg in CR, 5.6+/-4.4 kg in EX and 0.4+/-1.7 kg in HL, which corresponded to reductions of 24.9%, 22.3%, and 1.2% of baseline body fat mass, respectively. These CR- and EX-induced energy deficits were accompanied by reductions in most of the major CHD risk factors, including plasma LDLc, Tchol:HDL ratio, HOMA-IR index and CRP concentrations, that were similar in the two intervention groups. Data from the present study provide evidence that CR- and EX- induced negative energy balance result in substantial and similar improvements in the major risk factors for CHD in normal-weight and overweight middle-aged adults. Key words: calorie restriction, exercise, Coronary Heart Disease Risk Factors.

Fonte: Am J Phisiol Endocrinol Metabol

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