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01-09-2019 | Prediabetes | Original Article

Gender-dependent evaluation of football as medicine for prediabetes

Authors: Magni Mohr, May-Britt Skoradal, Thomas Rostgaard Andersen, Peter Krustrup

Published in: European Journal of Applied Physiology | Issue 9/2019

Abstract

Purpose

Training intensity and health effects of football were investigated gender specifically in individuals with prediabetes.

Methods

Participants with prediabetes (age 60 ± 6 years) were randomised into a football and dietary advice group (FD-men n = 13 and FD-women n = 14) or a dietary advice only group (D-men n = 12 and D-women n = 11). FD performed football training (twice/week for 16 weeks), while both groups received dietary advice. Body composition, bone variables, blood pressure, blood lipid profile and peak oxygen uptake (VO_2peak) were determined pre- and post-intervention.

Results

Mean heart rate during football training was 79 ± 2 and 80 ± 3% HR_max for FD-men and FD-women, respectively, with peak heart rate values of 96 ± 1 and 97 ± 2% HR_max, with no gender differences. VO_2peak increased more (P < 0.05) in FD-men and FD-women than in D-men and D-women. However, relative delta change in VO_2peak was 21 ± 14% in FD-women, which was greater (P < 0.05) than in FD-men (11 ± 12%). Reduction in SBP and DBP, respectively, was similar in FD-men (− 10.8 ± 13.0 and − 7.3 ± 11.8 mmHg) and FD-women (− 11.3 ± 11.0 and − 7.1 ± 6.2 mmHg), with within-gender differences for men. Total plasma cholesterol and LDL cholesterol decreased (P < 0.05) by − 0.7 ± 1.1 and − 0.5 ± 0.9 mmol L⁻¹, respectively, in FD-women and − 0.2 ± 0.4 and − 0.2 ± 0.3 mmol L⁻¹ in FD-men, with no significant gender differences (P = 0.08). Body fat content was lowered (P < 0.05) by 3 and 4%-points in FD-men and FD-women, respectively.

Conclusion

Gender-mixed football training combined with dietary advice causes broad-spectrum health effects for men and women with prediabetes, with minor gender-specific differences. Thus, the intensity and training-induced effects of football training are also high for elderly women with prediabetes.

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Title: Gender-dependent evaluation of football as medicine for prediabetes
Authors: Magni Mohr
May-Britt Skoradal
Thomas Rostgaard Andersen
Peter Krustrup
Publication date: 01-09-2019
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Keyword: Prediabetes
Published in: European Journal of Applied Physiology / Issue 9/2019
Print ISSN: 1439-6319
Electronic ISSN: 1439-6327
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00421-019-04188-5

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Gender-dependent evaluation of football as medicine for prediabetes

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