Key result
A 12-week water aerobic exercise program in sedentary women significantly altered plasma fatty acid profiles to resemble those of athletes, and these fatty acid levels correlated with cardiac hypertrophy indices.
Why the study?
The study evaluated the effects of acute and chronic exercise on plasma fatty acids and their association with cardiac hypertrophy indices.
Does acute and chronic exercise alter plasma fatty acid composition and correlate with cardiac hypertrophy indices in athlete and non-athlete women?
Does acute and chronic exercise alter plasma fatty acid composition and correlate with cardiac hypertrophy indices in athlete and non-athlete women?
p-value: p=<0.05
A 12-week exercise program in sedentary women shifts their plasma fatty acid profile toward that of athletes, and these fatty acid changes correlate with physiological cardiac hypertrophy indices.
Pilot data link exercise-altered FAs to LV indices in women; leaves open clinical relevance and causal inference.
Study aim : In this study, we evaluated the effects of acute and chronic exercise on the plasma FAs and their association with cardiac hypertrophy indices. Material and methods : In this pilot study, 15 sedentary and 15 athlete women underwent acute and long-term water aerobic exercise and their plasma FA levels and a number of electrocardiographic parameters, such as left ventricular end-diastolic diameter index (LVEDDI), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), left ventricular mass index (LVMI), and wall thickness were evaluated before and after the exercise program. Results : The acute exercise significantly increased palmitic and oleic acid levels in non-athletes and stearic acid in both groups. However, the same type of exercise decreased linoleic acid only in non-athlete women (p < 0.05). The water aerobics training caused a significant decrease in the levels of palmitic, stearic, and arachidonic acid, SFA/UFA, and ω3/ ω6 ratios and also an increase in α-Linolenic acid and MUFA in non-athletes. We found positive and negative correlations between LVEF with ω3 and SFA/UFA ratio in both groups, respectively. In the non-athlete group, the ω3/ω6 ratio showed negative correlations with LVMI and LVEDDI. Conclusions : The study indicated that the 12-week exercise by sedentary women could make their plasma FAs composition similar to athlete women. Moreover, the plasma FA levels were associated with cardiac hypertrophy indices, showing the importance of FAs in physiological hypertrophy.
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Abdollahi et al. (2021) studied Healthy (sedentary and athlete women) (n=30). Acute and 12-week water aerobic exercise vs. Baseline (pre-exercise) and athlete group was evaluated on Changes in plasma fatty acid composition and echocardiographic parameters (LVEDDI, LVEF, LVMI) (p=<0.05). A 12-week water aerobic exercise program in sedentary women significantly altered plasma fatty acid profiles to resemble those of athletes, and these fatty acid levels correlated with cardiac hypertrophy indices.
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