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EFFECT OF DANCE EXERCISE ON COGNITIVE FUNCTION IN ELDERLY PATIENTS WITH METABOLIC SYNDROME: A PILOT STUDY |
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Se-Hong Kim1, Minjeong Kim2, Yu-Bae Ahn3, Hyun-Kook Lim4, Sung-Goo Kang1, Jung-hyoun Cho1, Seo-Jin Park1 and Sang-Wook Song1  |
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Department of 1Family Medicine, 3Internal Medicine an 4Neuropsychiatry , St. Vincent's Hospital, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, 2Department of Sport Education, Hankook University of Foreign Studies, South Korea |
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© Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2011) 10, 671 - 678 |
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| Metabolic syndrome is associated with an increased risk of cognitive
impairment. The purpose of this prospective pilot study was to examine the
effects of dance exercise on cognitive function in elderly patients with
metabolic syndrome. The participants included 38 elderly metabolic syndrome
patients with normal cognitive function (26 exercise group and 12 control
group). The exercise group performed dance exercise twice a week for 6 months.
Cognitive function was assessed in all participants using the Korean version
of the Consortium to Establish a Registry for Alzheimer's disease (CERAD-K).
Repeated-measures ANCOVA was used to assess the effect of dance exercise
on cognitive function and cardiometabolic risk factors. Compared with the
control group, the exercise group significantly improved in verbal fluency
(p = 0.048), word list delayed recall (p = 0.038), word list recognition
(p = 0.007), and total CERAD-K score (p = 0.037). However, no significance
difference was found in body mass index, blood pressure, waist circumference,
fasting plasma glucose, triglyceride, and HDL cholesterol between groups
over the 6-month period. In the present study, six months of dance exercise
improved cognitive function in older adults with metabolic syndrome. Thus,
dance exercise may reduce the risk for cognitive disorders in elderly people
with metabolic syndrome. Key words: Dance exercise, cognitive function, metabolic syndrome, elderly, CERAD-K. |
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