Pengaruh Latihan Fisik Terhadap Risiko Kardiometabolik (Trigliserida) pada Wanita Usia Reproduktif

Abstract

Cardiometabolic or metabolic syndromes are a group of risk factors that are directly related to the occurrence of heart disease, including diabetes and elevated levels of plasma glucose, obesity, cholesterol, triglycerides, and high blood pressure. The research aimed to investigate the effect of the physical exercise on the cardiometabolic risk factor (triglyceride) of reproductive-aged women in the coastal area. The research used the quasi-experimental method with one-group pre-test and post-test design. Samples were taken using the purposive sampling technique. The blood was taken on 117 reproductive age women (61 coastal area samples and 56 non-coastal area samples) before and after the physical exercise to check the blood triglyceride level using the spectrophotometer. The comparison of the triglyceride level between the samples dwelling in the coastal area and the noncoastal area was only carried out before the physical exercise.  The type of physical exercise was the aerobics gymnastic which was conducted 3 times a week for 8 weeks with a duration of 60 minutes. The research results indicate that there is no significant difference in the triglyceride level based on the respondents domicile with the value of p = 0.154 that mean is the  significant correlation between the triglyceride level category before and after the physical exercise (the normal category from 94 subjects to become 114 subjects, high limit category from 16 subjects to become 3 subjects, high category from 6 subjects to become none, and very high category from 1 subject to become none with the value of p = 0.001). There is a significant decrease on the triglyceride level after the physical exercise (122.83 mg/dL ± 75.99 to become 106.19 mg/dL ± 29.86, p=0.003). Therefore, physical exercise can decrease the triglyceride level, whereas the coastal and noncoastal domiciles do not have an effect on the triglyceride level.