Sixteen weeks of resistance training can decrease the risk of metabolic syndrome in healthy postmenopausal women

Miguel Soares Conceição, Valéria Bonganha, Felipe C. Vechin, Ricardo Berton, Manoel E. Lixandrão, Felipe Damas, Souza, Mara Patrícia Traina Chacon‐Mikahil, Cleiton Augusto Libardi

Clinical Interventions in Aging · 2013 · 89 citations · 37 references

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Abstract

It was concluded that resistance training performed three times a week may reduce the metabolic syndrome Z-score with concomitant decreases in fasting blood glucose, improvements in body composition, and muscle strength in postmenopausal women.

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