The effect of eight-week aerobic training in water, with or without consumption of Bunium persicum on the levels of hs-CRP and lipid profile in postmenopausal inactive women

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the most important factors of mortality in Postmenopausal women and is most prevalent in postmenopausal women due to the reduced protective role of estrogen. So, this research was done with the aim of effect of 8-week aerobic exercise in water (AW) with or without consumption of Bunium persicum (BP) in levels of hsCRP and lipid profile in postmenopausal inactive women.

This study consisted of postmenopausal and obese women referring to pools in Mashhad who were selected by purposive sampling method and were randomly divided into three groups of 10 each with exercise, supplementation and supplementation whit exercise. Training group for eight weeks (three days) program of aerobic exercise in water with 55-75% of maximum heart rate intensity has eight weeks of supplementation (3 g daily Bunium persicum) consumption and group with both interventions had exercise + supplements. For data analysis, KS test, paired samples t test and one-way ANOVA were used.

Data Analysis showed a significant reduction in levels of hsCRP in BP group (p=0.01) and aerobic power in all three groups had a significant increase (p<0.05), but the changes in hsCRP and aerobic power did not have statistically significant difference between the three groups.

It seems that the daily consumption of BP plays an important role in prevention of CVD occurrence and AW with or without consumption of BP is effective on improvement of aerobic power.