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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the participants

From: The effects of exercise training on hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis reactivity and autonomic response to acute stress—a randomized controlled study

 

Control

Intervention

Mean

SD

Mean

SD

Sex (women/men)

18/22

 

20/28

 

Age (range)

41 (24–50)

7.8

38 (23–49)

6.7

BMI

24.7

3.9

25.0

3.1

WHR

0.9

0.1

0.9

0.1

Post-secondary education

85%

 

92%

 

Tobacco user

20%

 

13%

 

VO2 peak (mL/kg/min)

33.4

6.2

34.8

6.8

TTE (min:sec)

7:19

02:32

7:58

02:23

  1. BMI body mass index, WHR waist-to-hip ratio, VO2 peak peak oxygen uptake, TTE time-to-exhaustion, SD standard deviation