Beneficios del ejercicio sobre los aspectos mentales y la calidad de vida en mujeres

Exercise Dose and Quality of Life


A Randomized Controlled Trial
Corby K. Martin, PhD; Timothy S. Church, MD, MPH, PhD; Angela M. Thompson, MSPH; Conrad P. Earnest, PhD; Steven N. Blair, PED
Arch Intern Med. 2009;169(3):269-278.

Background Improved quality of life (QOL) is a purported benefit of exercise, but few randomized controlled trials and no dose-response trials have been conducted to examine this assertion.

Methods The effect of 50%, 100%, and 150% of the physical activity recommendation on QOL was examined in a 6-month randomized controlled trial. Participants were 430 sedentary postmenopausal women (body mass index range, 25.0-43.0 [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) with elevated systolic blood pressure randomized to a nonexercise control group (n = 92) or 1 of 3 exercise groups: exercise energy expenditure of 4 (n = 147), 8 (n = 96), or 12 (n = 95) kilocalories per kilogram of body weight per week. Eight aspects of physical and mental QOL were measured at baseline and month 6 with the use of the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short Form Health Survey.

Results Change in all mental and physical aspects of QOL, except bodily pain, was dose dependent (trend analyses were significant, and exercise dose was a significant predictor of QOL change; P < .05). Higher doses of exercise were associated with larger improvements in mental and physical aspects of QOL. Controlling for weight change did not attenuate the exercise-QOL association.

Conclusion Exercise-induced QOL improvements were dose dependent and independent of weight change.

Trial Registration clinicaltrials.gov Identifier: NCT00011193



Author Affiliations: Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Louisiana State University System, Baton Rouge (Drs Martin, Church, and Earnest and Ms Thompson); Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia (Dr Blair); and Department of Kinesiology, Health Promotion, and Recreation, University of North Texas, Denton (Dr Blair).



Recomendaciones de de la actividad física en mujeres, de acuerdo a los niveles de evidencia

Actividad física: alentar consistentemente a la mujer a acumular al menos 30 minutos de actividad física moderada a intensa (caminar vigorosamente la mayoría o preferentemente todos los días de la semana) Clase I, N:B, IA=1

Clase I: evidencia y/o acuerdo general de que un determinado procedimiento/tratamiento es beneficioso, útil y efectivo.

Grado B de evidencia: datos procedentes de un único ensayo clínico aleatorizado o de estudios no aleatorizados.

Indice de aplicabilidad (IA=1) : con muchas posibilidades de éxito generalizado en mujeres

Bibliografía:

- Guías para la prevención CV en mujeres basadas en la evidencia (AHA/ACC) 2004 Circulation 2004;109:672-93