TY - JOUR
T1 - Age and the effect of exercise, nutrition and cognitive training on oxidative stress – The Vienna Active Aging Study (VAAS), a randomized controlled trial
AU - Franzke, Bernhard
AU - Schober-Halper, Barbara
AU - Hofmann, Marlene
AU - Oesen, Stefan
AU - Tosevska, Anela
AU - Henriksen, Trine
AU - Poulsen, Henrik E.
AU - Strasser, Eva Maria
AU - Wessner, Barbara
AU - Wagner, Karl Heinz
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - The purpose of this study was to investigated the effect of age – over or under life-expectancy (LE) – on six months resistance training alone or combined with a nutritional supplement, and cognitive training by analyzing markers for oxidative stress and antioxidant defense in institutionalized elderly, living in Vienna. Three groups (n = 117, age = 83.1 ± 6.1 years) – resistance training (RT), RT combined with protein and vitamin supplementation (RTS) or cognitive training (CT) – performed two guided training sessions per week for six months. Oxidative stress, antioxidant defense and DNA strand breaks were analyzed and transformed into an “antioxidant factor” to compare the total effect of the intervention. Physical fitness was assessed by the 6-min-walking, the chair-rise and the handgrip strength tests. We observed significant negative baseline correlations between 8-oxo-7.8-dihydroguanosine and handgrip strength (r = −0.350, p = 0.001), and between high sensitive troponin-T and the 6-min-walking test (r = −0.210, p = 0.035). RT and RTS groups, showed significant improvements in physical performance. Over LE, subjects of the RT group demonstrated a significant greater response in the “antioxidant factor” compared to RTS and CT (RT vs. RTS p = 0.033, RT vs. CT p = 0.028), whereas no difference was observed between the intervention groups under LE. Six months of elastic band resistance training lead to improvements in antioxidant defense, DNA stability and oxidative damage, summarized in the “antioxidant factor”, however mainly in subjects over their statistical LE. Consuming a supplement containing antioxidants might inhibit optimal cellular response to exercise. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the City of Vienna (EK-11–151–0811) and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01775111.
AB - The purpose of this study was to investigated the effect of age – over or under life-expectancy (LE) – on six months resistance training alone or combined with a nutritional supplement, and cognitive training by analyzing markers for oxidative stress and antioxidant defense in institutionalized elderly, living in Vienna. Three groups (n = 117, age = 83.1 ± 6.1 years) – resistance training (RT), RT combined with protein and vitamin supplementation (RTS) or cognitive training (CT) – performed two guided training sessions per week for six months. Oxidative stress, antioxidant defense and DNA strand breaks were analyzed and transformed into an “antioxidant factor” to compare the total effect of the intervention. Physical fitness was assessed by the 6-min-walking, the chair-rise and the handgrip strength tests. We observed significant negative baseline correlations between 8-oxo-7.8-dihydroguanosine and handgrip strength (r = −0.350, p = 0.001), and between high sensitive troponin-T and the 6-min-walking test (r = −0.210, p = 0.035). RT and RTS groups, showed significant improvements in physical performance. Over LE, subjects of the RT group demonstrated a significant greater response in the “antioxidant factor” compared to RTS and CT (RT vs. RTS p = 0.033, RT vs. CT p = 0.028), whereas no difference was observed between the intervention groups under LE. Six months of elastic band resistance training lead to improvements in antioxidant defense, DNA stability and oxidative damage, summarized in the “antioxidant factor”, however mainly in subjects over their statistical LE. Consuming a supplement containing antioxidants might inhibit optimal cellular response to exercise. The study was approved by the ethics committee of the City of Vienna (EK-11–151–0811) and registered at ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT01775111.
KW - Aging
KW - Antioxidants
KW - DNA damage
KW - Elderly
KW - Exercise
KW - Life-expectancy
KW - Lifestyle
KW - Oxidative stress
KW - Resistance training
KW - Vitamins
U2 - 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.04.565
DO - 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2018.04.565
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 29698742
AN - SCOPUS:85046657470
SN - 0891-5849
VL - 121
SP - 69
EP - 77
JO - Free Radical Biology & Medicine
JF - Free Radical Biology & Medicine
ER -