Effect of Interval Aerobic Training on Hormonal, Metabolic, and Tumor Markers in Postmenopausal
Insulin Resistance
About this trial
This is an interventional other trial for Insulin Resistance
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Sixty Postmenopausal women (55-65 y)
- Body mass index (BMI) ranged from 35 to 39.9 kg/m2
- Postmenopausal more than 2 years
Exclusion Criteria:
• women receiving weight-reduction interventions
- taking lipid lowering drugs
- regular medications(e.g., β-blockers, α-blockers, digoxin, diuretics, aspirin, nitrates, Presently using sex hormones)
- having active chronic illness (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, hyperthyroidism, and inflammatory bowel disease) and diabetes mellitus or other (unstable) endocrine-related diseases
- cognitive impairment that will make it difficult to partake in the study
- presence of malignant disease
- blood donation within the last 30 days
- Participation as a subject in any type of study or research during the prior 90 days
- smoking
Sites / Locations
- Physical TherapyRecruiting
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Other
Other
study group will receive interval training and diet advices
diet recommendations
exercise program in form of a cycling protocol which will be comprised 5 minutes of warming up before exercise initiation and another 5 minutes for cooling down by the end of the exercise session in the form of slow pedaling (50% of PHR). The work interval also will be consisted of 8-12 cycling intervals (60s cycling work interval with 120s of passive rest or low-intensity cycling (70% of PHR) between work intervals that progressively will be reduced until reaching 90s by the end of the exercise program)17.
The control group will receive diet recommendations. The volunteers will follow diet recommendations for 12 weeks