Microcurrent and Aerobic Exercise Effects on Abdominal Fat
Condition: Obesity, Abdominal
MeSH terms: Obesity, Abdominal
Study type: Interventional

Summary: 
      The purpose of this study was to analyze microcurrent short and long term effects used with
      aerobic exercise on abdominal fat.
    

Detailed description: 
      Nutritional patterns have been changed during XXI century with sugar and fat's high
      proportions that allied to sedentarism increased body fat. There is already a well establish
      relationship between total body fat excess, cardiometabolic diseases and increased mortality,
      knowing that abdominal fat (android pattern), different from body index, presents an
      additional influence to health risks. Women with their abdominal adipocytes (visceral fat)
      show an increased lipolitic activity that releases free fat acids to the systemic and portal
      circulation leading to a metabolic syndrome, increasing the risk of cardiovascular diseases
      Aerobic exercise is a way to decrease fat as it stimulates lipolysis through an increase in
      catecholamine's level resulting from a sympathetic system nervous activity raise. The most
      used exercise for lipid elimination is the prolonged aerobic moderate exercise with a minimum
      of 30 mn.

      Nevertheless aerobic exercise practice reduce globally lipidic sources and not locally .
      Electrolipolysis using microcurrent has been used in clinical practice as a technique to
      reduce abdominal fat. This technique can be applied transcutaneously or percutaneously
      seeming that the former is not so effective as skin can be an obstacle to the current effect
      on visceral and subcutaneous fat .

      Abdominal fat excess is associated with cardiometabolic diseases and can be prevented using
      microcurrent and aerobic exercise to stimulate lipolysis.
    

Intervention name(s): Exercise after; Exercise at same time; Transcutaneos; percutaneous microcurrent; 25-10Hz; 25-50Hz microcurrent
Intervention type(s): Device; Device; Device; Device; Device; Device
Intervention description(s): Aerobic exercise just after microcurrent in the abdominal region, intensity below the sensivity threshold and a maximum of 1 mA.
30 minutes of aerobic moderate-intensity exercise (50%VO2 max) using Karvonen´s formula, performed on a cycloergometer. Were used Borg scale (12-13) and Polar® heart monitors to control heart rate.; Aerobic exercise at the same time microcurrent in the abdominal region, intensity below the sensivity threshold and a maximum of 1 mA.
30 minutes of aerobic moderate-intensity exercise (50%VO2 max) using Karvonen´s formula, performed on a cycloergometer. Were used Borg scale (12-13) and Polar® heart monitors to control heart rate.; Microcurrent device in the abdominal region with four transcutaneous electrodes in a parallel position, intensity below the sensivity threshold and a maximum of 1 mA.; Microcurrent device in the abdominal region with four percutaneous electrodes in a parallel position, intensity below the sensivity threshold and a maximum of 1 mA.; microcurrent device in the abdominal whith intensity below the sensivity threshold and a maximum of 1 mA. Every 15 minutes changed from 25Hz to 10 Hz.; microcurrent device in the abdominal whith intensity below the sensivity threshold and a maximum of 1 mA. Every 15 minutes changed from 25Hz to 50 Hz.
Other intervention name(s): Aerobic exercise after microcurrent; Aerobic exercise at same time microcurrent; transcutaneos microcurrent; 25-10Hz microcurrent
Allocation: Randomized
Intervention model: Factorial Assignment
Masking: Double (Participant, Outcomes Assessor)
Primary purpose: Prevention
Keywords: abdominal fat; metabolic syndrome; microcurrent; aerobic exercise