[Effect of exercise on serum lipoproteins in 270 healthy men (author's transl)]

A group of two hundred seventy healthy patients aged 20 +/- 2 years endured a progressive physical program during eleven days. The caloric expense was an amount of 4,500 kcal for a ration of 4,200 kcal (+ 33%). When we compared the results of the start and end of this procedure, we found a high loss of weight (68,46 kg instead of 69,34, p less than 0,001), a total cholesterol reduction (4,33 mmol/l instead of 4,75, p less than 0,001), decrease of LDL-cholesterol (2,48 mmol/l instead of 3,15) and of triglycerides (1, 07 mmol/l instead of 0,81, p less than 0,0001); a raise of HDL cholesterol (1,06 to 1,11 mmol/l, p less than 0,01).