Women in primary health care: physical exercise, lifestyle and cardiovascular risk factors

Authors

  • Sara Pereira de Araújo Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo (UNASP), São Paulo, Brasil.
  • Natália Cristina de Oliveira Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo (UNASP), São Paulo, Brasil. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0747-9478
  • Cristiane Dias Corrêa Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo (UNASP), São Paulo, Brasil.
  • Hellen Tatiane de Pontes Centro Universitário de Volta Redonda (UniFoa), Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
  • Paulo Alves Cerqueira Unidade Básica de Saúde do Campo Limpo, São Paulo, Brasil.
  • Leslie Andrews Portes Centro Universitário Adventista de São Paulo (UNASP), São Paulo, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v11i3.1319

Keywords:

life style, women, physical exercise, risk factors, primary health care.

Abstract

Lifestyle disorders are related to inappropriate habits. Exercise programs can reduce the risk of to be affected by them. To evaluate and compare the effects of two programs on some of the parameters that determine the health of women attended at a Unidade Básica de Saúde (community health center), 54 women aged from 40 to 80 were grouped together into two groups: G1 (n = 26) to exercise the standard program (walking) and G2 (n = 28) to do the exercises of an alternative program (calisthenics + walking). The sessions for sixty minutes occurred four times a week for 16 weeks. The G1 and G2 participants exhibited loses (p <0.05) weight, reduced their body mass index, body fat percentage and blood pressure, as well as higher speed and higher oxygen consumption. G1 exhibited reduced diastolic blood pressure, increased forced vital capacity, and reduced cholesterol. G2 showed reduction of the total cholesterol level, the triglycerides levels and the VLDL. Our conclusion is that the programs showed similar positive results, in spite of superiority of the results presented by G2. However, they did not reduce cardiovascular risk.

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Published

2017-09-29

How to Cite

Araújo, S. P. de, Oliveira, N. C. de, Corrêa, C. D., Pontes, H. T. de, Cerqueira, P. A., & Portes, L. A. (2017). Women in primary health care: physical exercise, lifestyle and cardiovascular risk factors. Revista Eletrônica De Comunicação, Informação & Inovação Em Saúde, 11(3). https://doi.org/10.29397/reciis.v11i3.1319

Issue

Vol. 11 No. 3 (2017)

Section

Original articles

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