Cardiovascular disease risk factors in habitual exercisers, lean sedentary men and abdominally obese sedentary men

• Published in: International Journal of Obesity 2005-09, Vol.29 (9), p.1063-1069
• Main Authors: O'Donovan, G, Owen, A, Kearney, E M, Jones, D W, Nevill, A M, Woolf-May, K, Bird, S R
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Abstinence; Adult; Apolipoproteins; Apolipoproteins B - blood; Biological and medical sciences; Blood pressure; Blood Pressure - physiology; Body fat; Body Fat Distribution; Body Mass Index; Cardiology. Vascular system; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Cardiovascular Diseases - etiology; Cardiovascular Diseases - physiopathology; Cholesterol; Cholesterol - blood; Cholesterol, HDL - blood; Cholesterol, LDL - blood; Coronary heart disease; Cross-Sectional Studies; Energy Metabolism - physiology; Epidemiology; Exercise; Exercise - physiology; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Health risks; Heart; High density lipoprotein; Humans; Internal Medicine; Low density lipoprotein; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Middle Aged; Obesity; Obesity - complications; Obesity - physiopathology; Oxygen consumption; Oxygen Consumption - physiology; Physical fitness; Public Health; Risk Factors; Thinness - physiopathology; Triglycerides; Triglycerides - blood
• ISSN: 0307-0565; 1476-5497
• DOI: 10.1038/sj.ijo.0803004

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether the favourable cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk factor profile of habitual exercisers is attributable to exercise or leanness. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study of 113 nonsmoking men aged 30–45 y. CVD risk factors were compared in exercisers ( n =39) and sedentary men ( n =74), and in subgroups of lean exercisers ( n =37), lean sedentary men ( n =46) and obese sedentary men ( n =28). Waist girth was used to identify lean (