| Keywords |
Adolescent ; Cardiopulmonary fitness ; Metabolic disease ; Muscular endurance |
| Abstract |
The purpose of the current study was to investigate the association of muscular endurance (ME) and cardiopulmonary fitness (CF) to insulin resistance and the risk factors of cardiovascular disease (CVD) among Korean male high school students. Among two hundred eighty seven male adolescents anthropometric assessment, physical fitness test and serum analyses were conducted. The level of physical fitness was negatively correlated with fatness, insulin, insulin resistance, cardiovascular risk score (CVDRS). ME was significantly associated with total cholesterol, triglyceride, insulin, insulin resistance and CVDRS, and CF was associated with triglyceride, high density lipoprotein cholesterol, insulin, insulin resistance and CVDRS. In order to compare and investigate the association of CF and ME to CVD risk factors, participants were divided into four groups across the combined level of CF and ME. The finding demonstrated that participants with the high level of either ME or CF have the low level of triglyceride, insulin resistance and CVDRS than the low level of ME and CF. The current study suggests that improvement of ME or CF is important to prevent metabolic disease among Korean male adolescents. |