EFFECTS OF REGULAR EXERCISE, CIGARETTE SMOKING, ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION ON BLOOD LIPID AND LIPOPROTEIN LEVELS
Şaban ACARBAY1, Faruk TURGAY2, Oğuz KARAMIZRAK3, Çetin İŞLEGEN3
1Gençlik ve Spor İl Müdürlüğü, Sporcu Sağlık Merkezi, İzmir
2Ege Üniversitesi Beden Eğitimi ve Spor Yüksekokulu, İzmir
3Ege Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi, Spor Hekimliği AD, İzmir
Keywords: Exercise, serum cholesterol, HDL-cholesterol and subgroups, triglyceride, alcohol consumption, smoking
Abstract
Healthy middle aged males participated in the study. They were divided into subgroups according to their exercise, alcohol drinking and smoking habits, and the effect on blood lipids and lipoproteins were assessed. The exercise group (n=47) trained aerobically at least twice per week. The sedentary group (n=31) did not train at all. Smoker groups consumed at least 10 cigarettes per day, while the alcohol consuming group drank three times weekly, at least 80 g of alcohol daily. Besides physical parameters and body mass index, indirect maxVO2, heart rate and blood pressure were measured. Blood levels of total cholesterol (TC), triglyceride (TG), LDL-C, HDL-C, and HDL2-C and HDL3-C subfractions were determined in fasting serum as CHD risk factors The training group had significantly higher HDL-C, HDL2-C, HDL3-C, maxVO2 levels and lower TG and TC/HDL-C scores. In case of smoking and alcohol usage, the effects of exercise disappeared, and negative effects on CHD risk factors occurred. As a result; exercise did not change serum TC and LDL-C, but had a favourite effect on other CHD risk factors. Smoking and alcohol consumption seemed to have negative effects on CHD risk factors, even in master athletes.
