@article{3050316,
    title = "The effects of endurance training on selected coronary risk factors in
children",
    author = "Stergioulas, A and Tripolitsioti, A and Messinis, D and Bouloukos, A and and Nounopoulos, C",
    journal = "ACTA PAEDIATRICA SCANDINAVICA",
    year = "1998",
    volume = "87",
    number = "4",
    pages = "401-404",
    publisher = "Wiley",
    doi = "10.1080/08035259850156986",
    keywords = "cholesterol; exercise; high-density lipoprotein; prostacyclin; sedentary
children",
    abstract = "The effects of regular aerobic exercise on blood concentrations on
high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and prostacyclin were studied in 18
healthy sedentary boys who exercised on a bicycle ergometer for 1 h,
four times per week, for 2 months at 75% of their physical working
capacity. The results were compared with those of 10 control boys who
did not participate in any specific program. The exercise group revealed
a significantly higher mean high-density lipoprotein cholesterol and
6-keto-PGF1a concentration at the end of the training program (p < 0.005
and p < 0.001, respectively). These results suggest that regular aerobic
exercise has beneficial effects upon the high-density lipoprotein
cholesterol and 6-keto-PGF1a in healthy young boys and may be beneficial
in the long term, by preventing atherosclerosis of coronary artery
disease in adulthood."
}