The Effects of Group Exercise on Fat Distribution, Lipid Profiles in Elderly Women

Lee, Kyung Hye; Kang, Hyun Sook

Abstract

PURPOSE
This study was aimed to identify the effects of group exercise on physiological functions in Elderly. METHOD: The design of research was one group pretest-posttest design. The subjects were sixty two elderly women persons over sixty years old to live in C-GUN, The exercise period was 12-weeks and frequency was three times per week. the exercise duration was sixty minites. In order to evaluate the effect of exercise, we measured %body fat, fat mass (FM), fat free mass (FFM), body mass index (BMI), body metabolic rate (BMR), Total Cholesterol (TC), Triglyceride (TG), high density lipoprotein-c (HDL-C), low density lipoprotein-c (LDL-C) before and after the 12 week's group exercise program. The data analyzed by the paired t-test using SPSS package. RESULT: There was significant difference in FFM (p=.000), BMR (p=.000), HDL-C (p=.010). There was no significant difference in weight (p=.122), %body fat (p=.062), FM (p=.704), BMI (p=.136), TC (p=.125), TG (p=.064), LDL-C (p=.575). CONCLUSION: This group exercise for elderly women can be recommended as an effective nursing intervention for elderly women in a community.