The Impact of Different Training Modalities in Metabolic Profile of Metabolic Syndrome Patients: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Metabolic Syndrome is a set of metabolic risk factors related to a higher probability of death for diseases such as Diabetes and Cardiovascular Diseases. This research has as general objective to understand the impact of different training programs, with short intervention time (12 to 20 weeks) in the Metabolic Syndrome indicators of adults and elderly individuals. Through this integrative literature review with studies from the years 2010 to 2020, we sought to perform analyzes on the effect of resistance, aerobic and combined training protocols on the metabolic status of people with Metabolic Syndrome. The following metabolic, physiological and anthropometric variables were analyzed: Systolic Blood Pressure (SBP), Diastolic Blood Pressure (DBP), HDL-c, TG, Glucose and Waist Circumference (CC). The results showed that the Resistance Training in conjunction with caloric restriction showed greater effectiveness in reducing DBP and SBP. The increase in HDL-c was found in two of the four Resistance Training interventions. No aerobic training protocol showed significant changes in glucose levels. It was also shown that the Concurrent Training had a greater impact on the reductions in SBP, Glucose and CC. We observed in these studies that all training programs proved to be efficient in reducing metabolic syndrome indicators in sedentary people with a short intervention period.