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Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence?
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BACKGROUND: Individuals differ in the response to regular exercise. Whether there are people who experience adverse changes in cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors has never been addressed. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: An adverse response is defined as an exercise-induced change that worsens a risk factor beyond measurement error and expected day-to-day variation. Sixty subjects were measured three times over a period of three weeks, and variation in resting systolic blood pressure (SBP) and in fasting plasma HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C), triglycerides (TG), and insulin (FI) was quantified. The technical error (TE) defined as the within-subject standard deviation derived from these measurements was computed. An adverse response for a given risk factor was defined as a change that was at least two TEs away from no change but in an adverse direction. Thus an adverse response was recorded if an increase reached 10 mm Hg or more for SBP, 0.42 mmol/L or more for TG, or 24 pmol/L or more for FI or if a decrease reached 0.12 mmol/L or more for HDL-C. Completers from six exercise studies were used in the present analysis: Whites (N = 473) and Blacks (N = 250) from the HERITAGE Family Study; Whites and Blacks from DREW (N = 326), from INFLAME (N = 70), and from STRRIDE (N = 303); and Whites from a University of Maryland cohort (N = 160) and from a University of Jyvaskyla study (N = 105), for a total of 1,687 men and women. Using the above definitions, 126 subjects (8.4%) had an adverse change in FI. Numbers of adverse responders reached 12.2% for SBP, 10.4% for TG, and 13.3% for HDL-C. About 7% of participants experienced adverse responses in two or more risk factors. CONCLUSIONS/SIGNIFICANCE: Adverse responses to regular exercise in cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors occur. Identifying the predictors of such unwarranted responses and how to prevent them will provide the foundation for personalized exercise prescription.
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Adverse metabolic responses to regular exercise—worsening of systolic blood pressure, HDL-cholesterol, triglycerides, or fasting insulin beyond measurement error—occur in a nontrivial minority of adults across six exercise studies. The paper estimates prevalences of roughly 8%–13% per risk factor and about 7% for two or more risk factors.
Key findings
- Across six exercise studies (maximum N = 1,687), adverse responder prevalence was 8.3% for fasting insulin (abstract states 8.4%), 13.3% for HDL-C, 10.3% for triglycerides, and 12.2% for systolic blood pressure.
- In HERITAGE, 6%–9% of Blacks and Whites experienced adverse responses for each of the four risk factors, with no substantive differences between ethnic groups.
- About 7% of participants experienced adverse responses in two or more risk factors; Table 8 reports 6% with exactly two and 0.8% with three or four.
- Adverse response traits appeared independent of cardiorespiratory fitness improvement: only 2 of 56 tested differences in VO2max gain between adverse and non-adverse responders reached p ≤ 0.05, far from a Bonferroni-adjusted p = 0.0009. DREW showed no substantive differences in adverse response prevalence across 4, 8, or 12 kcal/kg/week exercise doses.
Methods
- Secondary analysis of completers from six exercise intervention studies: HERITAGE (473 Whites, 250 Blacks), DREW (326), INFLAME (70), STRRIDE (303), MARYLAND (160), and JYVASKYLA (105), for a maximum of 1,687 men and women.
- Adverse response was defined as an exercise-induced change at least 2× the technical error (TE) in an adverse direction: increase ≥10 mm Hg for systolic BP, ≥0.42 mmol/L for triglycerides, ≥24 pmol/L for fasting insulin, or decrease ≤0.12 mmol/L for HDL-C. TE was derived from 60 subjects measured three times over 3 weeks, except fasting insulin, for which assays were performed twice and TE was estimated using other HERITAGE data plus literature.
- Analyses included prevalence tabulations, paired t tests for within-cohort mean changes, general linear models comparing VO2max gains between adverse and non-adverse responders with age, sex, and baseline VO2max as covariates, and a DREW dose comparison.
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- The paper states that the causes of adverse responses are unknown, that exercise-drug interactions cannot be directly tested with available data, and that it is unknown whether some adverse responders would revert with different exercise doses or modalities; findings also need extension to other risk factors such as LDL-cholesterol, inflammation markers, and adiposity traits.
- Evident from the text: this is a secondary analysis of completers from heterogeneous studies with differing protocols and health statuses, some trait data are unavailable (e.g., STRRIDE systolic BP is N/A), and the fasting insulin TE was not based on three repeated measurements but estimated from other data and literature.
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“Adverse responses to regular exercise in cardiovascular and diabetes risk factors occur.”
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“Thus, some individuals experience ARs when exposed to regular exercise, but the causes of the phenomenon are unknown at this time.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Abstract > Conclusions/Significance
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passes- Rests on an assumption: Completers of the six exercise studies are representative of sedentary adults generally.
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“Numbers of adverse responders reached 12.2% for SBP, 10.4% for TG, and 13.3% for HDL-C.”
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“Based on a maximum of 1687 subjects, the prevalence of an AR reached 8.3% for the changes in FI, 13.3% for the changes in fasting HDL-C, 10.3% for TG, and 12.2% for resting SBP.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Abstract > Methodology/Principal Findings
Tests✓ Asserted: passes✓ Checkable: passes✓ Load-bearing: passes✓ Based: passes- Rests on an assumption: The technical error estimates derived from the HERITAGE ancillary study apply to the other five exercise studies.
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“All gains in VO2max are significant at p<0.05.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Results
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“Yet substantial numbers of subjects with or without medication in these cohorts experienced one or more ARs.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Discussion
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“Only a small minority of participants (<1%) exhibited ARs for three or more traits.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Results
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“The prevalence of ARs appears to be similar at low and high doses of exercise.”
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“No substantive differences were observed in the prevalence of ARs among the three levels of exercise energy expenditure, which ranged from 4 to 12 kcal/kg of body weight per week.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Discussion
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“Numbers of adverse responders reached 12.2% for SBP, 10.4% for TG, and 13.3% for HDL-C.”
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“Based on a maximum of 1687 subjects, the prevalence of an AR reached 8.3% for the changes in FI, 13.3% for the changes in fasting HDL-C, 10.3% for TG, and 12.2% for resting SBP.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Abstract > Methodology/Principal Findings
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“Numbers of adverse responders reached 12.2% for SBP, 10.4% for TG, and 13.3% for HDL-C.”
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“Based on a maximum of 1687 subjects, the prevalence of an AR reached 8.3% for the changes in FI, 13.3% for the changes in fasting HDL-C, 10.3% for TG, and 12.2% for resting SBP.”
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“The prevalence of ARs for select risk factors varied from 8.3% for the exercise training-induced changes in FI to 13.3% for the changes in HDL-C, with about 7% of participants experiencing adverse changes in two or more risk factors.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Discussion
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“Even though the presence of ARs was first detected among completers in Blacks and Whites of the HERITAGE Family Study, in which subjects were confirmed to be sedentary at baseline, with a rather healthy profile, the phenomenon was confirmed in five other exercise intervention studies.”
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“Although HERITAGE subjects were apparently healthy and not taking medication for blood pressure, glucose, or lipid anomalies and were exposed to the same exercise program, 6% to 9% of Blacks and Whites experienced ARs for each of the four risk factors, with no substantive differences between the two ethnic groups.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Results
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“Using the above definitions, 126 subjects (8.4%) had an adverse change in FI.”
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“Based on a maximum of 1687 subjects, the prevalence of an AR reached 8.3% for the changes in FI, 13.3% for the changes in fasting HDL-C, 10.3% for TG, and 12.2% for resting SBP.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The technical error estimates derived from the HERITAGE ancillary study apply to the other five exercise studies.
- Rests on an assumption: The six exercise studies are sufficiently comparable to pool for estimating overall prevalence of adverse responses.
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“The mean changes induced by the exercise programs were generally in the expected direction (i.e., decreases in FI, TG, and SBP and increases in HDL-C). There were, however, some statistically nonsignificant exceptions to these general trends.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Results
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“In summary, we did not find any evidence for differences in the prevalence of ARs between Blacks and Whites or between men and women.”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Discussion
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“In the case of FI, the assays were performed only twice, and we used other HERITAGE data plus observations from the literature to develop an estimate of TE for FI (Information S1).”
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“There are strong indications from a baseline skeletal muscle gene expression profile and from a genome-wide association study performed on the Whites of HERITAGE that the genetic component of a response trait can be defined in terms of RNA abundance observed in the sedentary state or by specific genomic variants [31], [32], [33].”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Discussion
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“In fact, the heritability of the changes induced by the exercise program reached about 30% for plasma HDL-C and TG [26] and about 20% to 25% for indicators of insulin metabolism and resting SBP [29], [30].”
§ Adverse Metabolic Response to Regular Exercise: Is It a Rare or Common Occurrence? > Discussion
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- Not checked — no full text of the sourcecites [26] T Rice, 2002, Familial aggregation of blood lipid response to exercise training in the health, risk factors, exercise training, and genetics (HERITAGE) Family Study., Circulation source
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“In contrast, ARs as defined herein for common cardiometabolic and diabetes risk factors are much more prevalent and become evident with exposure to regular exercise.”
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Completers of the six exercise studies are representative of sedentary adults generally.
“Approximately 7% of sedentary adults experienced ARs for at least two common cardiometabolic and diabetes risk factors following exposure to regular exercise.”
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The technical error estimates derived from the HERITAGE ancillary study apply to the other five exercise studies.
“An ancillary study designed to quantify TE for several biological traits was undertaken in HERITAGE.”
“These AR definitions are used in the remainder of this report.”
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The six exercise studies are sufficiently comparable to pool for estimating overall prevalence of adverse responses.
“Based on a maximum of 1687 subjects, the prevalence of an AR reached 8.3% for the changes in FI, 13.3% for the changes in fasting HDL-C, 10.3% for TG, and 12.2% for resting SBP.”
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Attrition in the six studies did not bias the prevalence estimates of adverse responses.
“Completers from six exercise studies were used in the present analysis”
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The four risk factors (systolic blood pressure, fasting insulin, HDL-cholesterol, and triglycerides) are valid indicators of cardiovascular and diabetes risk.
“with a focus on exercise-induced changes in resting systolic blood pressure (SBP), fasting insulin (FI), HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C), and triglycerides (TG).”
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Medication use reported in the cohorts is accurate and does not confound the comparison of adverse response prevalence.
“many subjects in DREW, INFLAME, MARYLAND, and STRRIDE were taking medications for high blood pressure, hyperglycemia, or dyslipoproteinemia. Yet substantial numbers of subjects with or without medication in these cohorts experienced one or more ARs.”
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“It has been previously suggested that for 20% to 25% of participants undertaking an exercise programme there is little to no favourable response (Timmons 2014), while a small percentage (5% to 10%) have adverse events (Bouchard 2012).”
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“7–15% of individuals demonstrated an ‘adverse response’ regarding alterations in systolic blood pressure, as well as in fasting levels of HDL cholesterol, triglycerides and insulin25,26.”
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“Moreover, in humans, metabolic non-response or even adverse responses to exercise have been described26.”
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Fasting-insulin adverse-response prevalence differs
MinorThe abstract reports 8.4% for fasting insulin, while the Results and Table 5 report 8.3% for the same 126 adverse responders.
“126 subjects (8.4%) had an adverse change in FI.”
“| Δ Fasting insulin | 55 | 36 | 12 | 17 | 4 | 2 | 126 | 8.3 |”
Triglyceride adverse-response prevalence differs
MinorThe abstract reports 10.4% for triglycerides, while the Results and Table 5 report 10.3%.
“Numbers of adverse responders reached 12.2% for SBP, 10.4% for TG, and 13.3% for HDL-C.”
“| Δ Triglycerides | 56 | 51 | 9 | 34 | 11 | 11 | 172 | 10.3 |”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Bouchard, C., Blair, S. N., Church, T. S., Earnest, C. P., Hagberg, J. M., Häkkinen, K., Jenkins, N. T., Karavirta, L., Kraus, W. E., Leon, A. S., Rao, D. C., Sarzynski, M. A., Skinner, J. S., Slentz, C. A., & Rankinen, T.
- Affiliations
- Pennington Biomedical Research Center (US)
- University of South Carolina (US)
- University of Maryland, College Park (US)
- University of Jyväskylä (FI)
- Duke Medical Center (US)
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Washington University in St. Louis (US)
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Bouchard, Claude
- ORCID
- Venue
- PLoS ONE
- Publisher
- Public Library of Science (PLoS)
- Published
- 2012-05-30
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- e37887
- ISSN
- 1932-6203 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC3364277
- OpenAlex
- W2085568044
- Cited by
- 404
- References
- 33
- Citations by year
- 2026: 16 · 2025: 15 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 21 · 2021: 36 · 2020: 22 · 2019: 44 · 2018: 41 · 2017: 37 · 2016: 28 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 32 · 2013: 46 · 2012: 6
- FWCI
- 34.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- PLoS ONE (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Digital Commons@Becker (Washington University School of Medicine) (submittedVersion)
- Jyväskylä University Digital Archive (University of Jyväskylä) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Scholar Commons (University of South Carolina) (submittedVersion)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- IUScholarWorks (Indiana University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (NIH T32)
- National Institute on Aging (R01AG017474, R01AG015389, NIH T32 AG00068)
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL047327, R01HL047317, R01HL057354, R01HL066262, R01HL047323, R01HL045670, R01HL047321)
- National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (T32AR048523)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology (medical) › Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Keywords
- diabetes risk factors, fasting insulin, systolic blood pressure, HDL cholesterol, triglycerides, within-person variability, exercise prescription, racial differences, HERITAGE Family Study
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Basal Metabolism, Blood Pressure, Cardiovascular Diseases, Diabetes Mellitus, Exercise Therapy, Fasting, Female, Humans, Insulin, Cholesterol, HDL, Male, Metabolism, Middle Aged, Risk Factors, Triglycerides, Exercise, Epidemiologic Studies
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