TY - JOUR
TI - The effects of endurance training on selected coronary risk factors in
children
AU - Stergioulas, A
AU - Tripolitsioti, A
AU - Messinis, D
AU - Bouloukos, A and
AU - Nounopoulos, C
JO - ACTA PAEDIATRICA SCANDINAVICA
PY - 1998
VL - 87
TODO - 4
SP - 401-404
PB - Wiley
SN - null
TODO - 10.1080/08035259850156986
TODO - cholesterol; exercise; high-density lipoprotein; prostacyclin; sedentary
children
TODO - 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.
ER -