[이데일리 이순용 기자] More than 1 in 4 postmenopausal women have been found to have abdominal obesity. The rate of strength training and aerobic exercise after menopause was less than 10%.
According to the Korea Food Communication Forum on the 20th, Chung-Ang University’s Department of Physical Education Professor Jeong In-kyung’s team analyzed the status of physical activity, such as exercise after menopause, on 1,890 postmenopausal women between the ages of 50 and 64 who participated in the National Health and Nutrition Survey from 2016 to 2018. It looked like this.
The results of this study (a study on the relationship between postmenopausal women’s grip strength and metabolic health risk and dietary life evaluation index by physical activity – using data from the 7th National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2016-2018 )) The study was published in the latest issue of the Asian Journal of Physical Education and Sport Science (AJPESS).
After menopause, 52.1% of the total did not do strength training and aerobic exercise, more than half (51.1% in their 50s and 53.8% in their 60s). Both did just 9.3% (9.9% in their 50s and 8.4% in their 60s).
Time spent sitting on a typical day was around 7 hours (425 minutes in the 50s and 421 minutes in the 60s). 25.1% of postmenopausal women in their 50s had abdominal obesity. 34.1% had impaired fasting blood glucose levels of 100 ml/dl or more, and 8.7% were diabetic patients. The rate of abdominal obesity in postmenopausal women in their early 60s was 30.6%.
31.7% of postmenopausal women in their 50s and 47.9% in their 60s had metabolic syndrome. In the thesis, Professor Jeong’s team said, “Postmenopausal women who did not participate in physical activity such as exercise had a higher risk of abdominal obesity and hypertriglyceridemia than women who did either strength training and exercise aerobic, or both.
The lower the grip strength (grip strength) of postmenopausal women, the greater the risk of various metabolic syndromes. Professor Jeong’s team measured the grip strength (absolute grip strength) of postmenopausal women and divided it by their weight (relative grip strength). Whether the relative grip strength met the health fitness standards or not was determined based on the health fitness standards for relative grip strength by gender and age (50s 42.3%, 60-64 years 40.5%).
Postmenopausal women in their 50s whose relative grip strength did not meet the health fitness criteria had a 4.6 times higher risk of abdominal obesity, a 1.8 times higher risk of hyperglycemia, a 1.4 times higher risk of hypertriglyceridemia, 1.4 times more. risk of low HDL cholesterol, The risk of metabolic syndrome was 2.3 times higher. A similar trend was seen in postmenopausal women aged 60 to 64. Postmenopausal women in this age group whose relative medical history did not meet the health fitness criteria had a 6.4 times greater risk of abdominal obesity and a 1.9 times greater risk of metabolic syndrome than women who suffers from metabolic syndrome.
In the thesis, Professor Jeong’s team said, “The World Health Organization (WHO) recommends reducing the amount of time spent sitting as much as possible and continuing moderate to vigorous physical exercise to prevent metabolic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and diabetes.” ㆍ It is necessary to reduce the time spent sitting, such as using a smartphone or watching TV, to less than 2 hours, and to practice aerobic exercise and strength training such as walking regularly,” he pointed out.
