Background: South Korea is one of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries with the longest working hours. This means that people do not spend a lot of time engaging ...in health activities. The purpose of this study was to investigate how yoga exercise twice a week affects the quality of life of women with metabolic syndrome in South Korea.Methods: Participants were assigned to either a yoga exercise group (n=17) or a control group (n=20). The yoga exercise group underwent exercise twice a week for 60 minutes, for a duration of 3 months. The quality of life of both groups was assessed using the EuroQoL-5 Dimension (EQ-5D) and the EuroQoL Visual Analog Scale (EQ-VAS).Results: EQ-VAS scores tended to increase in the yoga group compared to the control group (yoga group 76.29±13.10, control group 70.50±15.21, P=0.064), but the difference between the groups was not statistically significant. Furthermore, there was no statistically significant difference in EQ-5D scores (yoga group 0.88±0.10, control group 0.91±0.07, P=0.762) between the two groups when we compared quality of life before and after the yoga exercise program.Conclusion: Short-term intermittent yoga exercises, which lasted 1 hour and were performed twice a week for 3 months, performed in a group of female patients with metabolic syndrome did not lead to statistically significant changes in quality of life indices or metabolic syndrome indicators. Further studies including more frequent yoga exercise over longer periods of time are needed to establish the exact effect of yoga on quality of life in women with metabolic syndrome. KCI Citation Count: 0
Cholesterol-rich diet impairs endothelial NO synthase (eNOS) and enhances inducible NOS (iNOS) expression. In this study, we investigated effects of cholesterol on iNOS expression in high-fat-fed rat ...models, HepG2 and RAW264.7 cells. The high-fat diet increased the plasma total cholesterol level 6-7 fold and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol level (LDL-C) approximately 70 fold and slightly increased the level of lipid peroxidation as determined by thiobarbituric acid-reactive substance assay. The high-fat diet also increased plasma nitric oxide (NO) concentrations up to 5 fold, and induced iNOS mRNA expression in liver. The contractile responses of the endothelium-denuded thoracic aortic rings to phenylephrine were significantly damaged in high-fat-fed rats when assessed by organ chamber study. Treatment with estrogen for 4 days failed to reduce iNOS expressions as well as aortic contractility, although it improved lipid profiles. In cultured HepG2 or murine macrophage RAW264.7 cells, 3 days treatment with either 25-hydroxycholesterol or 7-ketocholesterol induced iNOS mRNA expression, as determined by RT-PCR. Our data suggested that the chronic exposure of hepatocytes and macrophage cells to high concentration of cholesterol or oxysterols may induce iNOS expression and subsequent synthesis of NO, which may be important in the pathogenesis of atherosclerosis.
초등학생의 식품알레르기 교육 프로그램의 효과 평가 김하림(Harim Kim); 송경희(Kyunghee Song); 이영미(Youngmi Lee) ...
東아시아食生活學會誌,
2015, Volume:
25, Issue:
6
Journal Article
Open access
This study aimed to evaluate the educational effects of an education program about food allergies in elementary school children. We conducted an education program consisting of eight classes for a ...total of 4,744 students at 100 elementary schools in Seoul and investigated changes in knowledge and awareness about food allergies in participants using a questionnaire. A total of 576 students (12.1%) reported that they have taken medical treatment because of a food allergy. After education, the knowledge score of participants significantly increased from 2.7 to 3.3 out of 5.0 (p<0.001). The ratio of having a friend with a food allergy decreased from 24.7% to 19.8% (p<0.001). The participants responding as having helped a friend with a food allergy significantly increased from 15.5% to 17.7% (p=0.003). Before education, 16.8% of respondents answered that they felt pity for friends with food allergies, whereas this percentage significantly decreased after education (p=0.034). Among 576 students with food allergies, 21.5% reported that they felt depressed due to their food allergies before education. However, the percentage significantly decreased after education (p<0.001). These results suggest that the education program about food allergies for elementary school students needs to be extended more widely to children.
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