Gut Liver.  2023 Jul;17(4):600-609. 10.5009/gnl220345.

Independent and Synergistic Associations of Aerobic Physical Activity and Resistance Exercise with Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

Affiliations
  • 1Institute of Health and Environment, Graduate School of Public Health, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
  • 2Department of Preventive Medicine, Chung-Ang University College of Medicine, Seoul, Korea
  • 3Departments of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea
  • 4Departments of Occupational Medicine, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea

Abstract

Background/Aims
This study aimed to examine the independent and synergistic association of aerobic physical activity and resistance exercise with nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) using a nationwide representative database.
Methods
This was a cross-sectional study using data from the Korea National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey between 2007 and 2010. Multiple logistic regression models were used to examine the independent and synergistic (additive interaction) associations of aerobic physical activity and resistance exercise with NAFLD after adjusting for multiple covariates.
Results
The prevalence of NAFLD was 26.2% for men and 17.6% for women. In the fully adjusted multiple logistic regression model to examine the independent association of aerobic physical activity or resistance exercise with NAFLD, the odds ratios for NAFLD were significantly decreased in both men (p=0.03) and women (p<0.01) who had highly active aerobic physical activity. Regarding the frequency of resistance exercise, the odds ratio for NAFLD was decreased in men who did resistance exercise ≥5 days per week (p=0.04), but not in women (p=0.19). How-ever, when investigating the synergistic associations of aerobic physical activity and resistance exercise, the odds ratios for NAFLD significantly decreased when the frequency of both exercises increased together in both men (p for interaction <0.01) and women (p for interaction<0.01).
Conclusions
Combining aerobic physical activity and resistance exercise had a synergistic preventive association for NAFLD in Korean men and women.

Keyword

Physical activity; Resistance training; Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
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