A review of the effects of exercise training on the metabolic syndrome markers in postmenopausal and obese women

Obesity and metabolic syndrome (MetS) are a combination of several metabolic disorders that increase the risk of chronic disease and mortality, and highly prevalent worldwide among postmenopausal women. However, it has been shown that regular exercise and increased physical activity can improve components of metabolic syndrome and the complications of obesity. Therefore, the present review was conducted to investigate the effects of different types of exercise training on biomarkers of metabolic syndrome in postmenopausal and obese women along with a possible of the underlying mechanisms.

For this systematic review, all relevant information were collected using search of specific keywords about of the effects of different types of exercise training on biomarkers of metabolic syndrome in postmenopausal and obese, via some internal and external databases including Web of Science, Pubmed, Google Scholar, Science Direct, Magiran, IranDoc and SID, that this information was extracted.

The results of the present review showed that different types of exercise programs through various physiological mechanisms improved most of the biomarkers of metabolic syndrome among obese and postmenopausal women.

It seems that increase of physical activity and different types of exercise interventions (aerobic, resistance, combination and HIIT) can improve the metabolic syndrome risk factors and thus represent a key treatment strategy to prevent and control of this metabolic disorder in obese and postmenopausal women.