Relationship between Adiponectin and Visceral Fat, Blood Lipid, Exercise in Overweight Women.

Abstract

This research aimed to observe relationship between the adiponectin levels and visceral fat,               blood lipid, and exercise in overweight women. Forty volunteered female, aged 25-45 whose body fat was over 28 percent and whose waist to hip ratio was over 0.8, participated in the study. They were randomly assigned to two groups. The twenty participants in the control group were allowed to perform daily activities, while the 20 participants in the experimental group engaged in a 16 week exercise program. The exercise program consisted of 1) walking on a treadmill at 80-90% HRR, for 45 minutes 2) 30 minutes of core conditioning exercises with stability balls. The exercise program lasted 16 weeks. The association of serum adiponectin, with visceral fats, total cholesterol, triglyceride, HDL-C and LDL-C of all participants were evaluated before starting the study. In addition, the effect of a 16 week exercise program on this relationship was also observed using Pearson product moment correlation. Statistical significance was set at 0.05.

Adiponectin levels of overweight women are inversely correlated with triglyceride and positively correlated with HDL-C. However, it did not significantly associate with visceral fat and total cholesterol. Moreover, the inverse relationship between adiponectin and triglyceride existed after the experimental group completed a 16 week exercise program.